by admin | Mar 27, 2022 | Other : PSYCHOSOCIAL STUDIES
ESSAY QUESTION: Discuss Freud’s proposition that: ‘it is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness.
READING
There are two key readings this week, and we expect you to read at least one of them. Watch the first video first, which introduces both briefly, then either do the reading first or watch the lectures first as you prefer.
Sigmund Freud (1915). Instincts and their Vicissitudes. In The Standard Edition, Volume 14 (1914-1916): On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement, Papers on Metapsychology and Other Works, 109-140. (This early text might be easier to read, and if you download from this link Lizaveta has highlighted the bits that relate to hate.) This is discussed in video 2.
Sigmund Freud (1930) ‘Civilization and its Discontents’. In The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, vol.21. London: Vintage. Chapters IV-VI, pp.99-122. (This represents Freud’s later, more fully developed version of his theory and is one of his most important works. The lecture will focus on this text.) This is discussed in video 3.
by admin | Mar 27, 2022 | Other : PSYCHOSOCIAL STUDIES
• READING
• News articles:
BBC (2019) ‘Brexit “major influence” in racism and hate crime rise’ BBC.co.uk 20 June 2019.
Donna Lu (2019) ‘UK police are using AI to spot spikes in Brexit-related hate crimes’ New Scientist 28 August 2019.
Academic reading:
Kathleen Blee (2003-4) ‘Positioning Hate’, Journal of Hate Studies, vol.3(1), pp95-105.
by admin | Mar 27, 2022 | Other : PSYCHOSOCIAL STUDIES
• A Reflective Statement about your learning: a 500-word (+/- 10%) statement about what you think you have learnt from the module. This does not need to describe the module itself, but could for example include comments on things that have surprised you or made you think differently or ideas you have for your future learning.
by | Jan 2, 2022 | Other : PSYCHOSOCIAL STUDIES
Bodies
Essay titles
What is a body? Illustrate your answer with reference to two approaches
Gilroy, P. 2004 ‘Melancholia’ in After Empire: Melancholia or Convivial Culture? London: Routledge
Mignolo, W. (2011) ‘Introduction: Coloniality | The Darker Side of Western Modernity’ in The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options pp1-24
Davis, L. J. 1995 Pp 23-72 from Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness and the Body
Said, E. ‘Introduction’ Orientalism
Hall, S. 1996 ‘Introduction: Who needs identity? Questions of Cultural Identity
by | Jan 2, 2022 | Other : PSYCHOSOCIAL STUDIES
Sexuality Autumn Term 2021-22
UPDATED Essay Questions
1. Critically examine the relevance of Freudian psychoanalysis to the study of sexuality in the contemporary moment.
Reading
Explore some of Freud’s writings on sexuality. Read as much or as little as you feel inclined, perhaps choosing a shorter essay (e.g. ‘Female Sexuality’) to read in its entirety or read a selection of sections from the much longer ‘Three Essays’.
Freud, S. (1905) ‘Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality’. In The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume VII
Freud, S. (1931) ‘Female Sexuality’. In The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud Volume VII
Freud, S. (1933) ‘Femininity’. In The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XXII.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Links to additional readings here:
Bailly, L. (2009) ‘Chapter 9: Gender Bending: The Formula of “Sexuation”’. In Lacan. Oxford: Oneworld, pp.146-152
Hsieh, L. (2012) ‘A Queer Sex, or, Can Psychoanalysis and Feminism Have Sex Without the Phallus?’ In Feminist Review 102(1): 97-115.
Irigaray, L. (1994) ‘The Poverty of Psychoanalysis’. In M. Whitford (ed.) The Irigaray Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, pp: 79-104
Pollock, G. (2008) ‘The visual poetics of shame: a feminist reading of Freud’s
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905)’. In Shame and Sexuality: Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture. Hove: Routledge, pp. 109-128
The following websites may also be of use:
renderingunconscious.org
Learning Resources
by | Dec 23, 2021 | Other : PSYCHOSOCIAL STUDIES
SOCIAL THEORY ESSAY QUESTIONS
How does Marx understand the emergence of class-based inequality under conditions of modernity? How important is his theory for understanding social inequality in contemporary society?
Key Readings
– Tucker (ed.) Marx and Engels Reader, Norton & Company, 1978. “Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts ”)
Further Readings
-Patricia Hills Collins, Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory. Duke UP, 2019. (Introduction).
Marx, Karl (1990). Capital, vol 1. London: Penguin, Chapter 1: The Commodity (pp. 125-177).
