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HISC 130 - 01   Blackness and the Psychoanalytic Imaginary

2024 Summer Quarter

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Career
Undergraduate
Grading
Student Option
Class Number
70027
Type
Lecture
Instruction Mode
Synchronous Online
Credits
5 units
General Education
ER
Status
Open
Available Seats
39
Enrollment Capacity
51
Enrolled
12
Wait List Capacity
999
Wait List Total
0

Description

Scholars in African and Black Studies have critiqued Freudian and post-Freudian psychoanalysis for its claim of universality, emphasizing its conscious and unconscious failures in accounting for the psycho-historical effects of racial violence. Drawing on thinkers and practitioners situated in both disciplines, this seminar examines Freudian notions of instinct, drive, desire, death, and sexuality in relation to blackness. Our critical study of Freud is guided by the following questions: how should we make sense of the seeming incommensurability between psychoanalysis and blackness?

Meeting Information

Days & Times Room Instructor Meeting Dates
TuTh 05:00PM-08:30PM Online Staff 07/29/24 - 08/30/24
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