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Wednesday: 11:10-1:10
Friday: 9:00-11:00

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Tuesday: 1:55-3:55
Friday: 11:10-1:10

*Extra Class on 2nd March, Wednesday at 2-4:30 pm (First group's presentation on Kancha Ilaiah's reading)

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Tuesday: 11:10-1:10
Thursday: 1:55-3:55

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1. Johri: Psychology_Social_Enquiry
2. Anup Dhar: Science of the Mind
3. Dilthey

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Google Drive link for all readings and class recordings.

1. 'Is there a Family?': complete reading for discussion in the next class (Dr Mamatha Karollil)
2. Friedrich Engels: 'The Origin of Family, Private Property and State' (Dr Mamatha Karollil)
3. Sudhir Kakkar: 'The Inner World...' (Chapter 3 & 4) (Dr Vatsala Saxena)
4. Why I'm not a Hindu (Dr Mamatha Karollil)
5. Caste and sexuality by Franco Macwan et al (first half) (Dr Mamatha Karollil)
6. Ayyappan's story, Spectral Speech (Dr Mamatha Karollil)

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PPT presenting answers for the four questions:
1. Who am I?
2. How am I related to the world in which I exist?
3. What meaning am I in search of in my life?
4. Where am I going?

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Monday: 11:10-1:10
Wednesday: 9:00-11:00

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First unit
1. Hadot: 'What is ancient philosophy' (Part 1: four chapters; Ch-9 & 10)
2. Adriana Cavarero: In Spite of Plato- A Feminist Rewriting of Ancient Philosophy (Supplementary reading)
3. Michel Foucault: Subjectivity and Truth (Politics of Truth)
4: Michel Foucault: Christianity and confession (Politics of Truth

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Monday: 1:55-3:55
Wednesday: 1:55-3:55

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Date of Submission: 15 th February, 2022
Word limit: 1000-1500
Reference Class recording and Script.

Write a textual analysis on how the question of idea, knowledge and ethics circulate within any “text” of your choice.  The “text” can be a short story, a novel, a film, a music video, a philosophical writing, a text on psychology or any other material of YOUR CHOOSING.

In writing your response you might focus on:

1.    Analyze the “text” as insightfully as possible.

2.    Elaborate on what you think of the terms “idea”, “knowledge” and “ethics”

3.    Elaborate on how they are circulating in the text. What ideas are underlined, what are implied, what ideas are conspicuously absent etc.

4.    How the deployment of such ideas create a kind of knowledge which produces a certain effect. For example does it re-affirm a tradition or a given belief or challenge it.

5.    How does the “text” thereby produce a certain identity of a self who embodies this kind of knowledge or how does it challenge/resist given identities of the self.

Below is a set of recommendations:

1.     Short Story:  Kafka: the Metamorphosis

2.     Short Story:  Kafka: In the Penal Colony

3.     Short Story:  Jose Louis Borges: Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote

4.     Play: Aristophanes: The Clouds

5.     Music video:  Pink Floyd : Another brick in the wall/  comfortably numb

6.     Philosophy: Plato:  Phaedrus

7.     Film: Agora (2009)Alejandro Amenábar

8.     Film: Seven (David Fincher)

9.     Film: Fight Club (David Fincher)
10.   Film: The Mad Women's Ball (2021) Mélanie Laurent

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PHS Monsoon 2021 (Jan 2022)

1. A very brief history of Psychology

Science(s) of the Mind: Fort-Da between the Windscreen and the Rearview Mirror Anup Dhar

Introduction to the place of phenomenological thinking in the history of Psychology. Peter. D . Ashworth. Pp.17

2. The question of a human science

Introduction to the Human Sciences. Dilthey

The Mythical Revolutions of American Psychology

3. History, power and the idea of psychological knowledge

Psychological Objects, Practice, and History (1993)  Kurt Danziger

Michel Foucault. The unconscious of history and culture. Clare O Farrell.p.162-182.

4. The mind body question

Descartes, Brentano, Husserl

Science(s) of the Mind: Fort-Da between the Windscreen and the Rearview Mirror Anup Dhar

Phenomenology and Psychological Science. Some chapters.

Edmund Husserl and Phenomenology Sean D Kelly

Descartes and the phenomenological tradition Wayne Marrtin

5. Bridging dualism 1

Phenomenology  of Perception Merleau Ponty. Specific chapters.

6.  Bridging dualism 2

Psychoanalysis

Science(s) of the Mind: Fort-Da between the Windscreen and the Rearview Mirror

Freud Jonathan Lear. Selected chapters.

7. Integrations

Phenomenology in Psychoanalysis Agostino et al

Performative Acts and Gender Constitution…Judith Butler

8. Creating a Psychosocial Psychology      Honey Oberoi

Interview with Ashis Nandy

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2nd Reflection: Ayyappan's story, Spectral Speech (Tentative Deadline: 17th-19th March)

Second Assignment: group presentation
"The presentations can be half an hour long and 15 mts for questions and discussion. Like discussed in class- you can elaborate on any of the themes we have been pursuing in class, as it relates to family, it should have psychosocial elements and you may use "cultural products" (a story- film or novel, a practice) to illustrate the themes you are picking through"

Points for the usual- flow (as one finishes, the next connects to what was said before), coherence, analytical complexity, psychosociality. Use of PowerPoint may be useful- though never put full text/sentences in a PowerPoint slide (except useful quotes from texts), then point disappears and with it, power.

Third Assignment: essay

Vatsala ma'am's Assignment 1:
This is about your written assignment (30 % weightage) . Deadline: 25th March .

Q1) How does the construal  of a 'good mother' and a 'bad mother' impact the psyche of an Indian child ? (1000 words)

Q2) According to Kakkar ,'Indian men have a passive-receptive attitude towards authority figures of all kinds' . Discuss this idea based on your reading of the text. (1000 words)

I expect you to briefly  introduce the concepts /ideas from the text , and then elaborate it as per your understanding  through examples and observations from your life.
In second question , you have to draw from the chapter 'Families and Children' (section : second birth & ontogeny of homo-hierarchicus) .

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Deadline: Sunday, 6th February, 2021
Link for course registration spreadsheet

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11 am to 1pm - ETS
2 pm to 4pm - CLOP (hybrid mode)

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1. Nancy McWilliams: Psychoanalytical Diagnosis (Chapter 1 & 2)

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Group Presentations based on chapters from McWilliams weekly-- check Google Classroom

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Form of Assessment:
Readings:
Date:

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Keep a regular record of reflections after each class.

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Book Review
1. Ethics: an essay on the understanding of the evil by Alain Badiou

OR

2. Did the Greeks believe in the myths by Paul Veyne

IKE book review second assignment due on 4th April

Word limit: 1000-1500 words