2009 Course Handbook
CUL200: Subjectivity: Living the Contemporary Self
In contemporary culture, everything is focussed on the experience of the individual. Where once human beings understood themselves in terms of their duty to their family, race, religion, nation or some ideal, now everything is measured according to the needs, views, experience and emotions of the individual. Accompanying this change. there has been an explosion in different ways of thinking about what the human self actually is, how we come to think of ourselves primarily as individuals, and what makes us the people we are. This unit surveys these different ways of thinking from Freud's "discovery" of the unconscious through Foucault's account of individuality as a fiction to recent thinking about the self in terms of sexuality, creativity, performance and the body.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
| When Offered: | 2010 - offered in 2010 |
| Staff Contact: | Associate Professor Nick Mansfield |
| Prerequisites: | CUL100 or CUL101 |
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| Unit Designations: | -- |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
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Department of Media, Music and Cultural Studies |