FSS:PSY208 Imagination & interpretation - Course Information

PSY208 Imagination and interpretation

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Jan Krása, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Mgr. Jan Krása, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Jan Krása, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Psychology – Faculty of Social Studies

Timetable

Tue 18:00–19:40 U43

Prerequisites

Knowledge of basic psychological terms and theories.
Ability of critical thinking.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 24 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/24, only registered: 0/24, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/24

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

Learning outcomes of the course are to acquaint students with the history of hermeneutics (technical and psychological), with the basics of a philosophical and depth hermeneutics, with several psychological interpreting schools and with the role of own cognitive processes in interpretation.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course, students will:
he will know the leading figures in the history of hermeneutics and their contribution to the theory of interpretation;
be acquainted with main themes in the field of philosophical and depth hermeneutics;
he will be familiar with the problem of translations between imitative and other human works;
be acquainted with the difference between psychoanalytical and analytical (archetypal) interpretation of fairy tales;
be able to ask new questions connected with the interpretation;
be able to write own interpretation of a selected work;

Syllabus

• 1. Introduction – basic terms, the interpretation as a problem; history of hermeneutics 1: from the beginning to st. Augustinus
• 2. History of hermeneutics 2: 18th and 19th century hermeneutics; Development of philosophical, structural and depth hermeneutics
• 3. Problems of the interpretation of human works: types of human work and their interpretability
• 4. Human language as a medium in which interpretation occurs: the relationship of speech to other human works; mimesis and poiesis; the possibilities of language and other media;
• 5. On the possibilities of psychological interpretation; depth hermeneutics prof. Hroch; an outline of cognitive hermeneutics
• 6. Symbols and archetypes: about the archetype of C. G. Jung, M. Eliade and others, biological concept of archetype, archetypology of G. Durand
• 7. Imagination and its place in psychology: a theory of G. Bachelard and P. Diel
• 8. Joint interpretation of the selected work (Easter celebrations)
• 9. Psychological analysis of fairy tales: especially about B. Bettelheim and M.-L. von Franz theory
• 10. Possibilities of interpretation of dreams: ancient oneiromantia, Artemidoros, Freud, Jung and other approaches
• 11. Interpretation of somatic symptoms: analytical, process-oriented psychotherapy and other approaches
• 12. Joint interpretation of the selected work (film, sculpture, painting, story)
• 13. Joint interpretation of the selected work (film, sculpture, painting, story)

Literature

required literature
• HAWKES, Terence. Strukturalismus a sémiotika. Vyd. 1. Praha: Host, 1999, 174 s. ISBN 80-86055-62-0. info

recommended literature
• BATESON, Gregory. Mysl & příroda : nezbytná jednota. Translated by Lucie Šavlíková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Malvern, 2006, 197 s. ISBN 8086702197. info
• NEUBAUER, Zdeněk. O Sněhurce, aneb, Cesta za smyslem bytí a poznání. Vyd. 1. Praha: Malvern, 2004, 287 s. ISBN 8086702022. URL info
• Aion : příspěvky k symbolice bytostného Já. Edited by Carl Gustav Jung, Translated by Petr Patočka. Vyd. 1. Brno: Nakladatelství Tomáše Janečka, 2003, 293 s. ISBN 8085880253. info
• BORECKÝ, Vladimír. Porozumění symbolu. 2., opr. a dopl. vyd. Praha: Triton, 2003, 215 s. ISBN 8072543717. info
• STARÝ, Rudolf. Cheirón, asklépiovská medicína a jungovská psychologie :(eseje). Vyd. 1. Praha: Sagittarius, 2000, 139 s. ISBN 80-86270-03-3. info
• HROCH, Jaroslav. Ke vztahu hlubinné hermeneutiky a metodologie humanitních věd (To the Relation of the Deep hermeneutics and the Methodology of Humanities). In Sborník prací filosofické fakulty brněnské univerzity. 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2000, p. 113-125. ISBN 80-210-1994-8. info
• FRANZ, Marie-Louise von. Mýtus a psychologie :mýty o stvoření z pohledu hlubinné psychologie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 1999, 205 s. ISBN 80-7178-343-9. info
• HILLMAN, James. Sny a podsvětí :nový pohled na sny rozšiřující klasické teorie S. Freuda a C.G. Junga. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 1999, 206 s. ISBN 80-7178-301-3. info
• KERÉNYI, Karl. Věda o mytologii. Edited by Carl Gustav Jung. Vyd. 2. Brno: Nakladatelství Tomáše Janečka, 1997, 255 s. ISBN 808588013X. info
• STARÝ, Rudolf. Medúsa v novější době kamenné :výbor z esejů 1976-1987. 1. vyd. Praha: Prostor, 1994, 169 s. ISBN 80-85190-30-3. info

not specified
• FRANZ, Marie-Louise von. Psychologický výklad pohádek :smysl pohádkových vyprávění podle jungovské archetypové psychologie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 1998, 182 s. ISBN 80-7178-260-2. info

Teaching methods

Lectures, seminaries, practical work on imagination (active imagination);

Assessment methods

Lectures and class discussion. Student have to write a work (5 pages at least) on the one of the topics from lectures (e.g. fairy-tale). Student have visit lectures properly.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

Listed among pre-requisites of other courses

• PSYb2080 Imagination and interpretation
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