COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PSYCHOANALYSIS, RELIGION AND MYSTICISM

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FDB 5179 PSYCHOANALYSIS, RELIGION AND MYSTICISM ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CIHAD KISA

Offered to

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Course Objective

This course attempts to articulate the movements of the relationship between psychoanalysis and religion historically, theoretically, clinically, and hermeneutically based on the writings of several psychoanalysts, classical and contemporary, such as William James, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Erik Erikson, D.W. Winnicott, W.W. Meissner, and Ana-Maria Rizzuto.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Expresses basic literature on the course
2   Makes critical assesments about psychoanalitic schools and theories.
3   Demonstrate that it is possible to make a dialogue between psychoanalysis and theology
4   Articulate how God-image is established from the perspectives of psychoanalysis

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The birth of psychoanalysis as a scientific discipline
2 Freud s theories on origin of religion
3 Freud s theories on origin of religion
4 The Basic concepts of analytical psychology
5 Collective unconscious and Religion
6 Functions of religion in psychic life
7 God as a archetypal form and contents
8 Mid-Term Exam.
9 Basic Trust and Religion (Erikson)
10 Religion as creative illusion (D.W. Winnicott)
11 Formation of God concept and God representation (Rizzuto)
12 Beyond Freud, Searching for correlative relationship between psychoanalysis and religion (W. W. Meissner)
13 Searching for a new paradigm of relationship between psychoanalysis and religion (James Jones)
14 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Köse, A.,(2000), Freud ve Din, Iz Yayınları, Istanbul.
2. Kısa, C.(2005), C.G.Jungda Din ve Birleşme Süreci, I.Ilahiyat vakfı Yay., Izmir
3. W. Meissnerr, Psychoanalysis and Religion, 1984, Yale University.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion, Brain Storming , Testing, Homework

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

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Assessment Criteria

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Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

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Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

cihad.kisa@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday 14:00 - 16:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Reading 7 3 21
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 152

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.13345
LO.23345
LO.33345
LO.43345