Religion and Psychoanalysis
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W Jan 21: Syllabus, Expectations, Grading |
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Freud and Classical Psychoanalysis
F Jan
23: Overview of the Course
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Introducing Psychoanalysis
M Jan 26: What is Psychoanalysis (1)?
Case: Gloria |
M&B: Preface; pp. 1-8 |
W Jan 28:
What is Psychoanalysis (2)?
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Freud, S. (1910)
“Observations on 'Wild Psycho-analysis’” (e-res) Freud (1914),
“Recollection, Repetition, and Working Through”(e-res) |
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F Jan 30:
No Class (faculty retreat) |
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Dreams, Psyche and Symbols
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M Feb 2:
Dreams I Central Concepts: The
topographical model,
manifest
and latent content
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M&B,
ch. 1, pp. 8-10
Writing Assignment 1: A Dream Analysis Due Feb 18 |
W Feb 4:
Dreams II
Central Concepts: Symbolization and the
dream work |
Freud, S. On
Dreams, chs. 6-13 |
F Feb 6: Dreams III
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M&B, ch. 1, pp. 10-22 |
M Feb 9: Contemporary Dream
Samples
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W Feb 11: From
Topography to Structure
Central Concepts: The
structural model
and the
Oedipus complex
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F Feb 13: Review of Major
Concepts and
Discussion of
Dream Papers.
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Freud on Religion
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F Feb 16: Why are we
religious? |
Freud, “A Religious
Experience” |
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W Feb 18: Oedipal Origins: Does religion emerge from
incestuous desires and murderous fantasies? |
Freud, Totem and Taboo, ch. 4,
parts 5-7 Writing Assignment 1 Due in Class |
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F Feb 20: Another Freud: Does Freud recognize
earlier, pre-Oedipal sources of religion? |
Freud, Civilization and its
Discontents, ch. 1 |
Religion and Madness: A Literary Case Study
M Feb 23: Equus, Scene One
Case: Alan Strang
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Shafer, P. Equus, scene one Note card and Discussion Assignment: Equus Act 1 Writing Assignment 2: Equus: A Dialogue Due March 9 |
M Feb 23
Evening: Screening of Equus
Library
321 |
Attendance at the screening is
required Please come on time The film runs for 2.5 hours |
W Feb 25: Equus, Scene
Two
Case: Alan
Strang |
Shafer, P. Equus, scene two Note card and Discussion Assignment: |
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F Feb 27: Equus, Scene Two Case: Martin
Dysart |
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Neo-Freudian and A Hindu Saint:
Klein & Ramakrishna
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M Mar 2: The Paranoid-Schizoid Position Case: Rachel |
M&B, ch. 4. |
W Mar
4: The Depressive Position
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F Mar 6: Envy and
Projective Identification |
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M Mar 9: Ramakrishna
Paramahamsa and the Goddess Kali |
Kripal,
J. “Kali’s Sword: Anxious Desire and the First Vision” (e-res) |
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W Mar 11: A comparative analysis of the text using Freud and Klein |
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F Mar 14: Midterm Exam |
Jung’s
Psychology of the Archetypes
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M Mar 23: No Class |
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W Mar 25: Introducing Carl
Jung Video: The Wisdom
of the Dream |
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F Mar 27: The “Objective Psyche” and the Collective
Unconscious |
Jung, Man and his Symbols (MHS) ch. 1, pp. 1-45. Assignment
for Monday: Go to the link below and take the Jung Typology Test to determine
your particular type. Then print out
the page that tells you your type and go on to read at least two of the links
about your type. Bring the printout and be prepared to describe your results
in class. http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp |
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M Mar 30: Types and Archetypes |
MHS, pp. 45-94 |
Individuation
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W Apr 1: Approaching the
Unconscious; Encountering the Shadow. |
MHS, ch 3, pp. 159-185 |
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F Apr 3: Anima and Animus |
MHS, pp. 185-207 |
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M Apr 6: No class |
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W Apr 8: Individuation and
the Self |
MHS,
pp. 207-254 |
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F Apr 10: The Meaning of
Myth |
Segal, Jung on
Mythology, "Making Life Meaningful," p. 94 - 97, and "Myths of
the Hero," p. 145-164 (handout). |
The Meanings of Myth
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M Apr 13: The Myth of the
Hero Video: The Power of Myth: Volume 1: The Hero's Journey |
Due April 20 |
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W Apr 15: The Myth of the Hero (2) |
Discussion
of Segal, Jung on Mythology, "Myths of the Hero,"
p. 145-164 (above). |
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W Apr 17:
Jung’s interpretation of Christ |
Jung, C.G. “Christ: A Symbol of the Self” |
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M Apr 20: A
Jungian Analysis of a Buddhist Text: The
Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation |
Jung’s
Commentary on The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (download
here) |
Object
Relations Theory
Winnicott
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W Apr 22:
False Self Disorder |
M&B,
ch 5, pp. 112-114, 124-134 |
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F Apr 24:
Transitional Experience Cases: Peter
and Doris |
Rizzuto, A. “God, the Enigma” |
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M Apr 27: God as Inner Object Case: Daniel Miller |
Due May 4 (Please leave a hard copy in the tray outside of my office) |
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W Apr 29: Religion and the Imagination: Paul Pruyser |
Pruyser, P. “Forms and
Functions of the Imagination in Religion” |
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F May 1: Discussion |
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M May 11: Final Exam. 2:00 – 4:15
pm |
Writing
Assignments (4)................. 400
(100 per assignment)
Portfolio.......................................... 100
Midterm
Exam................................ 200
Final
Exam...................................... 200
Participation................................... 100
Final Grade Values
1000 Points Possible
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900 to 919 = A- 880 to 899 = B+ 820 to 879 = B 800 to 819 = B- 780 to 799 = C+ |
700 to 719 =
C- 680 to 699 =
D+ 620 to 679 =
D 600 to 619 =
D- 599 &
below = F |
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