Postgraduate Course: The Screen and the Unconscious: Film and Psychoanalysis (CNST11058)
Course Outline
| School | School of Health in Social Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Counselling Studies |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course will specifically explore key psychoanalytic ideas articulated in the work of Freud, Klein and Lacan and feminist cultural theorists; these include the unconscious, the dream, phantasy, the return of the repressed, sex and desire, the loss of the object, the audience as voyeur. Using the film as a case study students will enhance their critical and analytic skills and their theoretical understanding. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course students should be able to:
- critically analyse of key concepts in the work of Freud, Klein and Lacan
- critically appraise feminist cultural theorists and their relationship to psychoanalysis
- conceptualise and analyse key psychoanalytic ideas in relation to film
- use film to illuminate psychoanalytic theory
- explore the subjective experience of film through a psychoanalytic lense
- relate psychoanalytic thinking to cultural activities.
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Assessment Information
One 4,000 to 5,000 word assignment asking students to critically reflect upon aspects of a specific film drawing upon psychoanalytic literature and subjective experience.
Assignments are assessed in relation to the following criteria:-
- capacity to conceptualise, explore and analyse one or more of the key themesexplored on the course
- capacity to critically use psychoanalytic ideas in relation to film
- capacity to link critical analysis of film to self
- written presentation skills including use of English, structure of essay, citation of sources and technical accuracy of presentation.
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Judith Fewell
Tel: (0131 6)51 6230
Email: Judith.Fewell@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Sue Larsen
Tel: (0131 6)51 6671
Email: Sue.Larsen@ed.ac.uk |
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