PA407-6-FY-CO:
Current Debates in Psychosocial Studies
2024/25
Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 6
Current
Thursday 03 October 2024
Friday 27 June 2025
30
13 June 2024
Requisites for this module
PA208 and PA209 and PA401 and PA402
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BA C890 Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies,
BA C89A Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies (Including Placement Year),
BA C89B Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies (Including Year Abroad),
BA C89C Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies (Including Foundation Year)
This module consists of blocks of one to three seminars by individual members of staff from the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, where they will present their latest research projects. In it, students will extend their knowledge about the variety of different approaches to psychodynamic thinking, as well as experience the different applications of those ideas in concrete research projects in a number of fields: the humanities, history, social sciences, psychotherapy, social care and others. The content of the programme and teaching staff will vary every year so as to remain always new, innovative and attuned to what is most recent in the field.
The aims of the module are:
- To provide a contemporary perspective on the different applications of psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theor
- To enable students to acquire an in-depth understanding of psychoanalytic concepts and their applications
- To provide students with greater understanding of the different methods of research, as well as with concrete examples of how research is conducted today
By the end of this module, students will be expected to be able to:
- Have a deeper understanding of psychoanalytic concepts and their applications in various fields
- Develop a stronger sense of how research is conducted: the problems, benefits and shortcomings of different methods
- Be able to better understand how to apply the concepts they have learned in other modules to concrete research methods
- Learn about different research methods
No additional information available.
This module will be delivered via:
- 20 weekly two-hour lectures in blocks of one to three seminars per member of staff
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Rose, J. (2016) ‘Who do you think you are?’,
London Review of Books, 38(9). Available at:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n09/jacqueline-rose/who-do-you-think-you-are.
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Russell Grigg, Dominique Hecq, and Craig Smith (1999) ‘Womanliness as Masquerade’, in
Female sexuality?: the early psychoanalytic controversies. Rebus Press. Available at:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429899447.
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Fanon, F., Markmann, C.L. and Gilroy, P. (2017)
Black skin, white masks. New Edition. London: Pluto Press. Available at:
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1519421.
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Marriott, D.S. (2007) ‘Bonding over phobia’, in Haunted life: visual culture and Black modernity. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, pp. 207–224.
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Hook, D. (2012)
A critical psychology of the postcolonial: the mind of apartheid. Hove: Routledge. Available at:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/universityofessex-ebooks/detail.action?docID=958194.
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Papadopoulos, R.K. (1992b) Carl Gustav Jung: critical assessments. London: Routledge.
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Saban, M. (2016) ‘Jung, Winnicott and the divided psyche’,
Journal of Analytical Psychology, 61(3), pp. 329–349. Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.12225.
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Jung, C.G. and Jaffé, A. (1963) Memories, dreams, reflections. London: Collins and Routledge & Kegan Paul.
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Kirsch, J. and Stein, M. (eds) (2013)
How and why we still read Jung: personal and professional reflections. Hove: Routledge. Available at:
http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780203507537.
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Minozzo, Ana and Tomcic, Ana (2023)
Psychoanalysis on the Margins: The Forgotten Legacy of Free Clinics. The Polyphony. Available at:
https://thepolyphony.org/2023/07/27/pychoanalysis-on-the-margins-the-forgotten-legacy-of-free-clinics/.
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ffytche, M., Ryan, J. and Soreanu, R. (2022) ‘Psychoanalysis for the People: Interrogations and Innovations’,
Psychoanalysis and History, 24(3), pp. 253–267. Available at:
https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.2022.0433.
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Wills, W.D. (2023)
The Hawkspur experiment: an informal account of the training of wayward adolescents. London: Routledge. Available at:
https://doi-org.uniessexlib.idm.oclc.org/10.4324/9781003343233.
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Aichhorn, A. (1983) ‘Wayward youth’, in. [S.l.]: Northwestern University Press.
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Loeser, C., Pini, B. and Crowley, V. (2018) ‘Disability and sexuality: Desires and pleasures’,
Sexualities, 21(3), pp. 255–270. Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460716688682.
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Berlant, L.G. and Edelman, L. (2014)
Sex, or the unbearable. Durham: Duke University Press. Available at:
https://www-jstor-org.uniessexlib.idm.oclc.org/stable/j.ctv11317j9.
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Jessica Benjamin (no date) ‘The Bonds of Love: Rational Violence and Erotic Domination’,
Feminist Studies, 6(1), pp. 144–174. Available at:
https://doi.org/10.2307/3177655.
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Hartman, S.V. (1997) Scenes of subjection: terror, slavery, and self-making in nineteenth-century America. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Ferenczi, S. (2002) ‘Taming of a Wild Horse’, in
Final Contributions to the Problems and Methods of Psycho-analysis. Taylor & Francis, pp. 336–340. Available at:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/universityofessex-ebooks/reader.action?docID=709592&ppg=337.
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Lu, K. (2020) ‘Racial Hybridity’,
International Journal of Jungian Studies, 12(1), pp. 11–40. Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1163/19409060-01201006.
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Brewster, F. (2019) ‘Binding legacies: ancestor, archetype and Other’,
Journal of Analytical Psychology, 64(3), pp. 306–319. Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.12500.
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Morgan, H. (2002) ‘Exploring racism’,
Journal of Analytical Psychology, 47(4), pp. 567–581. Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1111/1465-5922.00347.
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John McWhorter (2020) ‘The Dehumanizing Condescension of “White Fragility”’,
The Atlantic [Preprint]. Available at:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/dehumanizing-condescension-white-fragility/614146/.
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Hughes, C. (2019) ‘How to Be an Anti-Intellectual: A lauded book about antiracism is wrong on its facts and in its assumptions’,
City Journal [Preprint]. Available at:
https://www.city-journal.org/how-to-be-an-antiracist.
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DiAngelo, R. (2019) ‘The Good/Bad Binary’, in White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. London: Penguin.
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Trist, E.L., Murray, H. and Emery, F.E. (1990)
The social engagement of social science: a Tavistock anthology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Available at:
https://www-degruyter-com.uniessexlib.idm.oclc.org/doi/book/10.9783/9781512819748.
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Fraher, A.L. (2004) A history of group study and psychodynamic organizations. London: Free Association Books.
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Rex Haigh and Steve Pearce (2017)
The theory and practice of democratic therapeutic community treatment. Kingsley Publishers, Jessica. Available at:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/universityofessex-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4773950.
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Liam Clarke (2003)
The Time of the Therapeutic Communities: People, Places and Events. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Available at:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/universityofessex-ebooks/detail.action?docID=290966.
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Heller, T. (1996) Mental health matters: a reader. Basingstoke: Macmillan in association with the Open University.
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Chekhov, A. (2015) ‘Ward No. 6’, in
The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories. Sovereign Imprint. Available at:
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/13409/pg13409-images.html#link2H_4_0002.
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Nicholson, C. (2017) ‘Core Competencies’, in S. Pearce and R. Haigh (eds) The Theory and Practice of Democratic Therapeutic Community treatment. Jessica Kingsley, pp. 349–353.
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Main, R. (2014) ‘The cultural significance of synchronicity for Jung and Pauli’,
Journal of Analytical Psychology, 59(2), pp. 174–180. Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.12067.
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ZABRISKIE, B. (1995) ‘Jung and Pauli’,
Journal of Analytical Psychology, 40(4), pp. 531–553. Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-5922.1995.00531.x.
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Main, R. (2019) ‘Synchronicity and holism’,
Revue de Psychologie Analytique, pp. 59–74. Available at:
https://repository.essex.ac.uk/24760/.
The above list is indicative of the essential reading for the course.
The library makes provision for all reading list items, with digital provision where possible, and these resources are shared between students.
Further reading can be obtained from this module's
reading list.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Presentation |
|
40% |
| Coursework |
Reading assignment 1 |
16/10/2024 |
4% |
| Coursework |
Reading assignment 2 |
04/12/2024 |
4% |
| Coursework |
Reading assignment 3 |
15/01/2025 |
4% |
| Coursework |
Reading assignment 4 |
12/02/2025 |
4% |
| Coursework |
Reading assignment 5 |
26/02/2025 |
4% |
| Coursework |
Essay |
02/05/2025 |
40% |
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Prof Matt Ffytche, email: mffytche@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Jordan Osserman, email: j.osserman@essex.ac.uk.
from Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Student Administrator Room 5A.202; telephone 01206 874969; ppsug@essex.ac.uk
No
No
No
Dr Angie Voela
University of East London
Reader
Available via Moodle
Of 12 hours, 12 (100%) hours available to students:
0 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.
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