PSYCHOLOGY OF VISUAL PERCEPTION

Course Code:

Π-7060

Semester:

7st Semester

Specialization Category:

ΔΟΝΑ

Course Hours:

3

ECTS:

5


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