TOPICS IN LITERATURE & PSYCHOANALYSIS (PY3090)

Topics change every year. The course uses French literary or cinematographic material in order to introduce and illustrate important psychoanalytical notions which will help students understand the complexity of the human psyche and its cultural constructions. Course subjects have included: Fairy Tales and the Complexity of growing up, Psychoanalysis as Detective Story, Scandal as a cultural pathology, Islam and the invention of the Self... Taught in French.

Code: 
PY3090
Name: 
TOPICS IN LITERATURE & PSYCHOANALYSIS
Discipline: 
PY (Psychology)
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Undergraduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
Yes
Pre-requisites: 
FR2200CCI OR FR2500 OR FR2550
Co-requisites: 
None