Learning outcomes
- Application and analysis of the photographic picture as a psychological organon of interpretation of the reality and the self.
- Research of the psychological and psychoanalytical dimension of photography as a signifier of a symbolical system of discourse and application of that knowledge on scientific fields such as psychopathology, relation of the adolescent image with the self
- Application of the psychological knowledge to research and analysis of several art movements
- Application of photography as an interpreting mirror of the social phenomena
General Competences
- Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information with the use of the necessary technology
- Adapting to new situations
- Working independently
- Team work
- 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
- Analysis of the composing parts of the lacanian topology and application in photography
- Structural analysis of the meaning of photography as a signifier
- The psychology of the photographer and the artist
- Photography and its relation with the glance and the body
- Introduction to the psychopathology of the image
- Narcissism as context of photography
- The meanings of loss and mourning in the construction of the image
- The meaning of void as structural condition of the image
- Photography as transcendence of reality
- The contribution of Photography in the sense of sublime and beauty in the meta-Lyotard era
- Dynamics of the moving image
- Photography as psychotherapy
RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ADORNO Th., Aesthetic Theory
- ARNHEIM R., Art and Visual Perception
- DANTO A., The transfiguration of the Commonplace
- GOODMAN N., Languages of Art
- HEIDEGGER M., The origin of the Work of Art
- MERLEAU PONTY M., Phenomenology of Perception