COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LITERATURE AND PSYCHOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PSI 3032 LITERATURE AND PSYCHOLOGY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Psychology

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR GÜLAY DIRIK

Offered to

Psychology

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to be able to identify emotions, imagination, pleasure and desire of the literary works known as daydream and to win the ability of character analysis with the help of psychological data.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Be able to comprehend the relationship between psychology and literature
2   Be able to define psychological elements reflected in novels, poems and theater
3   Be able to evaluate literary works from the focus of psychology
4   Be able to determine reflecting emotion, imagination, pleasure and desire which are described as 'daydream' by Freud in the literary works
5   Be able to do character analysis in the literary works or any other written scripts with the help of psychological data
6   Be able to have the literature about psychological novels

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Relations of psychology and literature, psychological factors that are reflected to novels, poem and theatre
2 Examples of Freud, Jung and Lacan s literary analysis
3 Analysis of literary work and unconscious desire, Sofokles, Karal Oidipus
4 Return of repressed: Analysis of Thanatos conflict, Shakespeare, Hamlet
5 Babanın Adları, Dostoyevski's novel of Oteki
6 Phenomenon of alienation, Albert Camus, Yabancı novel
7 Worth and meaning in the face of existence, analysis of Yusuf Atılgan's Aylak Adam novel
8 Aestheticization of desire, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's Huzur novel
9 Aestheticization of desire, Edip Cansever's poetry
10 The gap of existence, Oğuz Atay's Tutunamayanlar novel
11 The gap of existence, Oğuz Atay's Tutunamayanlar novel
12 The return of images that disappeared with the identification, Büyülü Gerçeklik, Puslu Kıtalar Atlası that are the novels of Ihsan Oktay Anar
13 Subject across superego and law, Dava, the novel of Kafka
14 Subject in the face of Love, Şato, the novel of Kafka

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Sigmund Freud, Sanat ve Edebiyat Yazıları
2. Jacques Lacan, Psikanalizimin Dört Kavramı
3. Jacques Lacan, Babanın Adları
4. Carl Gustav Jung, Dört Arketip
5. Oğuz Cebeci, Psikanalitik Edebiyat Kuramı
6. Ibrahim Şahin, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar,
7. Sofokles, Kral Oidipus
8. Sahakespaire, Hamlet
9. Dostoyevski, Öteki
10. Albert Camus, Yabancı
11. Franz Kafka, Dava
12. Franz Kafka, Şato
13. Edip Cansever, Sonrası Kalır
14. Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Huzur
15. Yusuf Atılgan, Aylak Adam
16. Oğuz Atay, Tutunamayanlar

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturing
Question-Answer
Discussion

Assessment Methods

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-6: The students will be evaluated by questions in the midterm and final examination

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

70% attendance to the courses is compulsory.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

cafer.sen@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday 13:30 - 15:00

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 8 8
Preparation for final exam 1 12 12
Reading 1 16 16
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 124

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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