HART0116 Psycho - Indicative Weekly Topics and Suggested Reading

Indicative Weekly Reading

'Mad, Bad, and Sad': The 'Pathological' Female Body
Hysteria as Feminist Protest
Mourning and Melancholia 
'Object' Relations
Psychoanalysis-as-Museum
Psychoanalysis, Art, and War 

Suggested Preliminary Reading

Briony Fer, "Objects Beyond Objecthood," Oxford Art Journal, Louise Bourgeois special issue, vol. 22, no. 2 (1999), pp. 25-36

Juliet Mitchell, Psychoanalysis and Feminism: Freud, Reich, Laing and Women (New York: Vintage, 1974), "Introduction" pp. xiii-xxi

Laura Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” in Visual and Other Pleasures (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989), pp. 14-28.