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AP/POLS 3070

Psychology and Politics

3.0 credits

Undated; uploaded June 2026

Topics

  • Psychoanalysis and political thought
  • Ideology, repression and desire
  • Democracy and paranoia
  • Gender, patriarchy and relationality
  • Colonialism, race and psychological theory
  • Digital identity and disinhibition

Readings

  • Listed reading: Jean Baudrillard, In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities (1983).
  • Listed reading: Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology (2019).
  • Listed chapter: Nancy Chodorow, Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory, chapter 5 (1991).
  • Listed selections: Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, Richard Philcox translation (2004).
  • Listed readings: Freud, Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis; Civilization and Its Discontents.
  • Listed reading: Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics (2017).
  • Listed selections: Jacques Lacan, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, Seminar XVII.
  • Listed selection: Eli Sagan, The Honey and the Hemlock (1994).
  • Listed readings: Edward Said, Freud and the Non-European (2004); Travelling Theory.
  • Listed chapters: John Suler, Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Becoming Electric (2016), chapters 3–4.
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