Anotace
This is one of the courses of the UPCES programme (the Undergraduate Program in Central European Studies); the comprehensive information is available at https://bakalar.fhs.cuni.cz/SHV-211.html.
This course examines in detail a select band of the seminars offered by the major post-Freudian psychoanalytic thinker, teacher and practitioner, Jacques Lacan (1901-81), and some outstanding Lacan-criticism. The course also covers some important post-Lacanian thinkers with special reference to Slavoj Žižek (1949-) and to Julia
Kristeva (1940-) in order to use psychoanalysis as a powerful critical tool to diagnose both individual and social reality, as well as individual artworks.