Desiring Development: Psychoanalysis, Capitalism, and Global Futures

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Introduces psychoanalysis as a critical lens for understanding global development. Explores how unconscious forces such as desire, fantasy, and enjoyment shape ideas of progress, inequality, race, and globalization. Considers how media and ideology sustain these visions and examines possibilities for alternatives and transformation in contemporary global contexts. Prerequisite: 10.0 university credits including 1.0 GDST, CUST, or POST credit.