PSY446 LACANIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS: BASIC CONCEPTS
| Course Code: |
2330446 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
7,5 |
| Department: |
Psychology |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Offered Semester: |
Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
The course aims at attaining a basic understanding of the theoretical and clinical contributions of Jacques Lacan to psychoanalysis,art,philosophy and politics. Basic theoretical concepts such as the three registers of the imaginary, the symbolic and the real along with barred subject in four discourses will be reviewed. Besides consideration of the capability of psychoanalytic concepts to interpret daily news,films and clinical phenomena,the nature of studying unconscious within scientific perspective will also be covered.
