Teaching code

4S008177

Teacher

Massimo Recalcati

Coordinator

Massimo Recalcati

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-PSI/07 - DYNAMIC PSYCHOLOGY

Period

Sem. 2A dal Feb 13, 2023 al Mar 30, 2023.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

Knowledge and understanding 1. To introduce students to the study of motivation and emotions as psychological functions regulating human behaviour and improving participation. 2. To develop in the student the knowledge and understanding of those factors that facilitate or hinder the empathic process in terms of the foundation of relationships that promote motivation and well-being. Applying knowledge and understanding 1. To develop in the student the ability to identify the motivational factors that elicit individual behavior and choices, taking into account the context (relational, group, organizational) in which the motivations and behaviours are developed. 2. To develop in the student the skill to identify potential strategies for promoting and sustaining motivation in various contexts (learning and not learning contexts). 3. To develop in the student the skill to identify the different forms of empathy, those factors that are related to empathy and that improve relationships, those that inhibit the process or that can hinder the relationship.

Prerequisites and basic notions

Interest in studying the discipline

Program

TITLE: Melancholia and neo-melancholia: an introduction to contemporary psychopathology.
Melancholia occupies a special place in psychoanalytic psychopathology, particularly that of psychosis. Its central axiom is an axiom of unworthiness that pervades the whole of existence. Why is it possible to think of melancholia as the psychosis at the foundation of all psychoses? In what does its fundamental character consist? And what then are its more recent metamorphoses? Indeed, in the contemporary clinic we are seeing new melancholic pictures that no longer fall under the classical melancholia, which, according to Freud, was expressed as a "moral delirium." With the concept of neo-melancholia we will detail contemporary declinations of melancholia that instead of centering on the delusional amplification of guilt - as is the case in classical melancholia - are characterized as a hardening of identity boundaries, as a defense against the unlimited contingency of life. This new configuration of melancholia will be considered as a more general figure for understanding the current conditions of civilisation's discontents.

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Didactic methods

Lectures

Learning assessment procedures

Oral exam

Evaluation criteria

In particolare, verranno valutate:
• la conoscenza e la rielaborazione autonoma dei punti fondamentali del corso e la capacità di analizzare analogie e differenze tra gli autori presi in esame;
• le capacità riflessive dello studente in relazione all’analisi e alla discussione critica dei testi presi in considerazione.

Exam language

Italiano