Learning outcomes
- Development of thought as for the perception of the exterior and interior world concerning the image.
- Knowledge of the rules of visual perception and their application on photography
- Knowledge of the analysis of the relation of image, speech and reality
General Competences
- Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information with the use of the necessary technology
- Adapting to new situations
- Working independently
- Working in an international environment
- Working in an interdisciplinary environment
- Production of new research ideas
- Respect for difference and multiculturalism
- Respect for the natural environment
- Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues
- Criticism and self-criticism
- Production of free, creative and inductive thinking
Course Outline
Lectures
- Composition and function of the psychic system
- Relation image-reality
- Relation image-feeling
- Relation image and speech
- The ‘stage of the mirror’ as a producer of images and perception of the image of reality
- Relation image to self-image
- Genetics and ontology of the glance
- The meanings of metaphor and metonymy in visual representation
- Image as a substitute and equivalent of reality
- Photography as sign according to Eco and Hjemslev
- Relation of photography with the language, the language of dream and the language of art
- Photography as a defense mechanism of ‘ego’
- The meaning of time, mourning and immortality
RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ARNHEIM R., Art and Visual Perception
- BARTHES R., Camera Lucida
- GOODMAN N., Languages of Art
- DANTO A., What Art Is
- DOR J., Introduction a la lecture de Lacan
- SONTAG S., On Photography
- TISSERON S., Psychanalyse de l’ image
- FREUD S., Introduction to Psychoanalysis