Understanding Human Psyche

Paper Code: 
24GPSY402
Credits: 
04
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable students to gain comprehensive insights into psychology by exploring individual personality and character, understanding the interpretations of the unconscious mind, and delving into the process of psychic education.

 

 

Course Outcomes: 

COURSE

Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course Title

24GPSY402

Understanding Human Psyche

(Theory)

 

CO1: Developing insights with respect to Psychology in terms of individual’s personality and character

CO2: Identify Freud’s interpretation of unconscious of psyche.

CO3: Use Human Psyche with the process of discovery of soul.

CO4: Identify stressors in one’s life by unraveling the inner world of childhood in Indian context.

CO5: Developing sensitivity towards individual and cultural diversity in terms of maturational processes.

CO6: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.  

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion,

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, application based questions, Seminar presentation

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation,

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Psychology as Science:

Contribution in Indian Knowledge System; Knowledge of Self; The surface Personality and Character.

 

12.00
Unit II: 
Interpretation of the Unconscious of Psyche:

Perspective on Exploring the bridge between consciousness and unconscious; Freud’s Components of Mind and Major defense mechanism; Carl Jung’s conception of psyche-collective unconscious and archetypes.

 

12.00
Unit III: 
Unraveling the inner world of childhood in India:

Psychosocial Matrix of Infancy; Good-Bad Mother; Infancy and Ego.

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
Discovery; Self Observation; Search for Soul.

Discovery; Self Observation; Search for Soul.

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Maturational Process:

From Dependence to independence in the development of individual; Ego distortion in terms of true and false self

 

Essential Readings: 
  • Kakar, S. (2004). The Inner World: A psychoanalytic study of childhood & society in India (Second Edition). Oxford University Press.

 

  • Winnicott, D. W. (2007). The Maturational Processes and the facilitating environment. Karnac Book Ltd.

 

  • Huppes, N. (2001). Psychic Education a Workbook. All India Press.

 

Suggested Readings

  • Winnicott, D. W. (1971). Playing and Reality. Tavistock Publication.

 

  • Lear, J. (2005). Freud. Routledge Philosophers.

 

E-Resources:

 

 

 

Academic Year: 
2024-25
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