Course Details
Country:
France
Institution:
Sciences Po - Reims campus
Course Title:
Politics, aesthetics and the unconscious
Course Number:
DHUM 27A28
Course Description:
Prominent interpretations of Freud's groundbreaking concept typically reduce the unconscious to a strictly subjective, idiosyncratic, part of someone's mind, thus averse to any social or political understanding of it. These readings do not only fail to understand the radical relationality implied in the unconscious, but also lose sight of its political presuppositions and consequences. In this course, such presuppositions and consequences will be drawn from a close reading of texts by Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Angela Davis, Franz Fanon as well as Chantal Akerman and Agnès Varda movies, and surrealist works from the 30's with the aim to sketch out potential forms of resistances against capitalist, colonial, patriarchal and totalitarian forms of domination. Some of the questions we will be discussing are: Which is the specific contribution of psychoanalysis to our understanding of the social contract?
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
GOVT 319, GOVT 398
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