Vorlesungsverzeichnis
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Veranstaltungen von Amber Harper
Lehrveranstaltungen
Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Amber Harper
Termin:
wöchentlich | Dienstag | 16:15 - 17:45 | 13.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | C 12.010 Seminarraum
Inhalt: This seminar is dedicated to the role of psychoanalysis not primarily as a clinical practice but as a method of interpretation integral to Critical Theory. We will ask how psychoanalytic concepts challenged the idea of the coherent, unified subject and shaped twentieth-century approaches to reading culture. In the theoretical part of the course, we will discuss central texts by Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, and later thinkers who extended psychoanalysis into critical theory and cultural analysis, including Herbert Marcuse, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Simone de Beauvoir, Frantz Fanon, Anne Anlin Cheng, Lauren Berlant, and Eve Sedgwick. Discussions will focus on both the viability and the limitations of psychoanalysis as a hermeneutic framework, alongside central concepts such as psychic topography, signification, identification, repression, sublimation, and melancholia. In the practical part of the module, students will consolidate their learning through either three short written assignments or a group oral presentation. These tasks will focus on applying methods such as dream interpretation, symptomatic reading, critical phenomenology, and structural or deconstructive critique.
Historical Thinking (FSL) (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Amber Harper
Termin:
wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 12:15 - 13:45 | 13.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | C 16.129 Seminarraum | C 16.129!
Inhalt: This course explores the media and practices that make the past accessible. Students will be introduced to the theory of history and key historical methods, including archival research and discourse analysis. We will also examine major “genres” of historical writing—biography, microhistory, intellectual history, cultural history, and alternative history. Together, we will critically reflect on how history is narrated and on how archives privilege certain perspectives while marginalizing others. Through this work, students will discover how the lives and ideas of people from earlier times can appear both radically different from, and strikingly similar to, our own. When possible, readings will be in both English and German; students have the option of completing their homework in either language.