Understanding Human Psyche

Paper Code: 
GPSY 403
Credits: 
03
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

  
 

On completion of this course, the students will be able to:

LO1: Developing insights with respect to Psychology in terms of individual’s personality and character

LO2: Identify Freud’s interpretation of unconscious of psyche.

LO3: Use Human Psyche with the process of discovery of soul.

LO4: Identify stressors in one’s life by unraveling the inner world of childhood in Indian context.

LO5: Developing sensitivity towards individual and cultural diversity in terms of maturational processes.

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration, Team teaching

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

  

 

9.00
Unit I: 
Psychology as Science:

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

9.00
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.

9.00
Unit III: 
Unraveling the inner world of childhood in India:

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

9.00
Unit IV: 
Psychic Education:

Discovery; Self Observation; Search for Soul.

9.00
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.

References: 

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

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

E-Resources

·       ResearchGate

·       JSTOR

·       Proquest

·       Shodhganga

·       Delnet

·       Google Scholar

·       National Digital Library (NPTEL)

·       Academia

 

Journals

·       Perspectives on Psychological Science

·       Psychological Bulletin

·       Psychological Sciences

Academic Year: 
2023-2024
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