Psychoanalysis has provided the foundation and a shared language for much of the critical humanities - from Cinema Studies to Gender Studies to Performance Studies to Art History and Visual Culture Studies. Through course readings, discussions, writing assignments, and an optional creative project, this course will consider four primary questions: (1) What has been the impact of psychoanalysis on artistic practices? (2) How did individual artworks affect the conceptualization of key psychoanalytic ideas? (3) How have various academic disciplines in the arts-base humanities made use of psychoanalysis as a lens for viewing and listening to individual artworks? And finally, (4) What happened to psychoanalytic theory after the psychoanalytic turn? Open to scholars and arts practitioners.
For additional information, contact: Dr. Brian Steele, 806/742-0700; brian.steele@ttu.edu