The writings of Swiss psychologist C.G. Jung have had a pervasive but largely unacknowledged impact on 20th-century thought. In this course we will undertake a close reading of a selection of Jung's works in order to evaluate Jung=s contribution to contemporary issues related to religion, anthropology, art and literature, popular culture, creativity, gender and postmodernism. We will begin with Jung's model of the psyche and theory of analytical psychology, then move to an applied study of his hermeneutics as a complex and nuanced critical methodology and interpretative practice. As part of our own interpretative practice, in our reading of imaginative and cultural texts we will consider a range of viewpoints from classical Jungian to post- and non-Jungian perspectives.
Required Texts
From Caversham Booksellers, 98 Harbord St. west of Spadina
J. Campbell, ed. The Portable Jung (Penguin);
C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul (Kegan Paul);
C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Vintage);
C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols (Dell);
The Book of Job (The Bible);
R. Fitzgerald, trans. Homer, Odyssey (Vintage);
Grimm Bros., Fairy Tales (course kit);
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice (Vintage);
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin);
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Oxford);
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan: The Novel (Tundra or Oxford/World’s Classics);
W.B. Yeats, Selected Poems (course kit);
Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber (course kit);
Ann-Marie MacDonald, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (Playwrights Canada Press).
Films: Bladerunner; Star Wars; Juliet of the Spirits (students are responsible for viewing films outside of class time); Martha Graham dance movie (in-class viewing).
Course Kit of essential materials available from Scholar House Productions, 100 Harbord St., just west of Spadina (Tel.: 416 977 9641; sales@scholar-house.on.ca).
Course Outline
Sections I-IV Fall Session; Sections V-VI Winter Session
I Jung's psychological theory and model of the psyche)
II Mythology
III Religion
IV Anthropology/Ethnology
V Creativity and Imagination
VI Folk and Popular Culture
Time
Thursdays, 6:00-9:00
Evaluation
2 x 3-4 page essays in 1st Term: 10% & 15%: 25%;
2nd Term Assignment (Glossary of Terms, 5-6 pages): 15%;
Major Paper (approx. 15 pages; due last class): 30%;
Presentation & Written Reflections: 20%;
Attendance and informal participation: 10%
Please Note: Oral Presentation is to be on a different topic from that of your papers. Your Annotated Glossary of Terms should be written with the topic of your major paper in mind, while drawing examples from a range of texts.
Instructor
Dr. Ann Yeoman
