Psychology 109h
Foundations of Personality
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Spring, 2000

Doug Davis
Department of Psychology
Haverford College
Sharpless 310
Phone: 896-1236
ddavis@haverford.edu

The Psych 109g Newsgroup

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic god. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs he is truly magnificent; but those organs hare not grown on to him and they still give him much trouble at times.
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

New links, revised assignments, and corrections are noted at the end of this document.

This hypertextual document will provide you with a variety of local and Internet course resources in an easily-accessible way. It should be used in preference to paper wherever possible. As you get comfortable with it, you might

• recall a set of lecture notes from your dorm room at 3:00 AM
• engage in a discussion
  ("Can some of Freud's theories be read as feminist texts?"
  "Is genetic endowment the best predictor of success in the USA?")
  with me and classmates on the class discussion group, the night before class
• read assigments onscreen, bookmark interesting sections, record your notes on your personal system, and even
• develop a Web presence of your own.

First I'll acquaint you with the World Wide Web, a user-friendly subset of the Internet. This document also contains pointers to other Psychology resources on the Net. To get the most from the HyperSyllabus, you should acquire Web resources appropriate to your situation (Mac/Wintel, direct dorm or dial-in connection). Some geek skills are now essential, and I'll help you acquire these.

Please open this HyperSyllabus at least once before each class, click on unexplored links to the day's lecture topic, and read the relevant materials. I welcome your reactions and suggestions, which may be communicated to me verbally (it's still a good way to get to know people), posted to the class discussion group on Web Forum, or sent as electronic mail to ddavis@haverford.edu. Part of your grade will depend on regular participation in on- about the course material with me and to explore issues raised by the reading, and I will host review sessions in Sharpless 322 before quizzes. You can also learn a lot from the course assistants: Ellie Brown, Mike Oswalt, and Lawren Young.

Person-ality:
Egos, Stages

Week 1

M March 13 Overview: Civilization and Its Discontents (Gay, 722-772)

• Doug Davis: A Glossary of Freudian terminology
• Boyd Spencer's Freud Page
• The Freud Museum: Vienna

W March 15 The Freudian Slip: Exoriare aliquis ex ossibus nostris (Gay, xiii-xxix)

· The lecture

F March 17 Dr. Freud's Screen Memory (Gay,117-126)

· The lecture

Week 2

M March 20 Seduction and Its Discontents (Gay, 96-116): "Dora" (10 pp.) (Gay 173-239)

• The Oedipus link
• The lecture

W March 22 The Dream Book: and Self-Analysis

· “Shadowlands” is shown at 7:30, Hilles 109

• The lecture

Th March 23 7:30 p.m. lecture (Stokes Auditorium, required): Prof. Madelon Sprengnether, U. Minnesota will discuss the film “Shadowlands”

• The lecture: part one, part two

F March 24 Irma’s injection (Gay 129-142) (guest appearance by Prof. Sprengnether)

· Freud, Emma, Fliess: the rest of the story? (Download version)

· The lecture

Week 3

M March 27 Freudian Gender (Gay, 264-279, 628-666, 670-678)

• Femininity
• The lecture

W March 29 Psychoanalysis (4 pp.) and Its Discontents

• Notes on Adler and Jung (Spencer, W.B. Eastern Illinois University)
• The lecture

Th March 30 4:00-5:30 Discussion/review session, Sharpless 322

· The recording

F March 31 Freud and Jung: Intro'/Extraversion, Anima/Animus

• Jung
• The Dream
• A case study in "Individuation"
• Jung Web resources
• 2:30-4:00 Discussion/review session, Sharpless 322
• The lecture

Week 4

M April 3 Psychopathology, Style

• Psychiatric diagnosis and obsessive, histrionic/conversion, and paranoid "personality disorders"
• "David"
• Schizophrenia, schizotypy, labeling

• The lecture

W April 5 In-class Quiz on Freud and Jung

• A keyed copy of last year’s quiz

F April 7 Erik-son's Stages, Circles and Arrows (Erikson, Chapters 1-2, 5)

• An Erik Erikson homepage

M April 10 Epigenesis: "Wild Strawberries"

• The beginning of the 90-minute film is shown (copy on reserve)

• Damian Cannon review of "Wild Strawberries"
• Erikson's tour de force recounting of the film

• The lecture (37 minutes)

W April 12 Erikson: Ethnicity: Germans and Americans (Erikson 209-358)

· “Wild Strawberries” showing/discussion, 7-9 p.m., DC 003

• The lecture

F April 14 Identity and Beyond (Erikson 403-424)

• Sample Erikson Questions

• Keyed Copy of last year’s quiz

• The lecture

Week 6

M April 17 Man's Place, Woman's Voice: Isak's Stages, Justice and Care

· Gilligan. The conquistador and the dark continent

• The lecture

W April 19 Chodorow, Gilligan (teaching Shakespeare's sister)

• A Chodorow page
• Tech-Savvy: Educating Girls in the New Computer Age (2000)
• Nick Yee’s EverQuest study
• Nick Henriksen’s and Jan Engelmann’s Quake/Starcraft study

• The lecture

F April 21 Kohlberg: Stages and Dilemmas, Kohlberg & Gilligan (1972). The adolescent as a philosopher

• Web page tutorial on Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
• Gilligan. Adolescent development re-considered
• The lecture

Week 7

M April 24 Assessment: “Personality” and “Intelligence”

• The Bell Curve: two reviews
• Open letter to the Wall Street Journal (December 13, 1994)
• Is there a cognitive elite in America?
• The lecture

W April 26 Persons in CyberSpace

• The lecture
• The review session

F April 29 In-class Quiz

The Essay Final

Books*

• Erikson, E.H. (1950/1963). Childhood and society. New York: Norton.
• Gay, P. (Ed.) (1989). The Freud reader. New York: Norton.

Suggested Readings and On-line Resources

• American Psychological Association. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on Psychological Texts
• Baumbach, Jim. E Pluribus Unum. Word.
• Becker, J., Dorward, P., & Pasciak, P. Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development.
• M.B. Bowers. (1974). Retreat from sanity: The structure of emerging psychosis. Baltimore: Penguin.
  "David"
• Brenner, C. (1996). The Mind as Conflict and Compromise Formation.
• Chodorow, Nancy. (1978). The reproduction of mothering: Psychoanalysis and the sociology of gender. Berkeley: University of California Press. excerpt.
• Davis, D.A. (1997). A Web glossary of Freudian terms and concepts.
• Davis, D.A. (1990). Writing Freud. Unpublished paper.
• Davis, D.A. (1994). A Theory for the 90s: Freud's Seduction Theory in Historical Context. Psychoanalytic Review, 81(4), 627-640.
• Davis, D.A. (in press). Jung in the Psychoanalytic movement. In P. Young-Eisendrath & T. Dawson (Eds.). Cambridge Companion to Jung. Cambridge U. Press.
• Dibbell.(1993). A rape in cyberspace: How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database Into a Society. The Village Voice, December 23, 1993.
• Erikson, E.H. (1954). The dream specimen of psychoanalysis. In Knight, R., & Friedman, C.R. (Eds.). Psychoanalytic psychiatry and psychology: Clinical and theoretical papers. Austen Riggs Center, Vol. 1. New York: International Universities Press. pp. 131-170.
• Erikson, E.H. A Life History: Revisitation and Reinvolvement ("Wild Strawberries")
• Erikson, E.H. (1970). Autobiographic notes on the identity crisis. Daedalus, 99, 730-759.
• Flavell, John H. (1963). The Developmental Psychology of Jean Piaget. Chapter 6: Formal Operations and Perception: Concrete and formal operations.
• Freud, S. (1900). The interpretation of dreams. On-line version of A. A. Brill (1911) translation: Psych Web
• Freud, S. (1940, 1933). The structure of the unconscious. Excerpts from An Outline of Psychoanalysis [l940], translated from the German by James Strachey, and New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis [1933], translated by W. J. H. Sprott. On-line from UPenn English Web server.
• Gilligan, C. (1988/1990). Teaching Shakespeare's sister. from Making Connections: The relational worlds of adolescent girls at Emma Willard School. ( 1990). Carol Gilligan, Nona Lyons and Trudy Hammer, Eds. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp. 6-29.
• Holland, Norman N. The Internet regression.
• James, W. (1902). The varieties of religious experience. Psych Web
• Jung, C.G. Marriage as a psychological relationship. Anima and Animus.
• Jung, C.G. (1959). A study in the process of individuation. from The archetypes and the collective unconscious. New York: Pantheon. (pp.290-307)
• Kohlberg, L., & Gilligan, C. (1972 ). The adolescent as a philosopher: The discovery of the self in a post-conventional world. in 12 to 16: Early Adolescence, ed. Jerome Kagan and Robert Coles. New York: Norton. excerpt.
• Krementz, Jill. An Erik Erikson homepage.
• Revelle, W. (1995). Personality processes, The Annual Review of Psychology, 46.
• Revelle, W. (1995). The personality project: Suggested readings.
• Rheingold, Howard. (1996). The virtual community.
• Shakespeare. Sonnets.
• Sophocles. Oedipus the King. MIT: Internet Classics Archive.
• Spencer, W.B. (Eastern Illinois University). Notes on Adler, Erikson, Freud, Jung.
• Sprengnether, Madelon. (1995). Reading Freud's life. American Imago, 52.1 9-54.
• Steinem, Gloria. (1986). If men could menstruate. from Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions. NY: NAL.
• Stevenson, D.B. (Brown '66). Sigmund Freud: The Father of Psychoanalysis.
• Turkle, Sherry. Constructions and Reconstructions of the Self in Virtual Reality.
• Weiss, Jesse. (1994). Virtual love. Cyberkind.
• Young, Robert M. (1996a). Primitive processes on the Internet.
• Young, Robert M. (1996b). New ideas about the Oedipus complex. In Whatever Happened to Human Nature? The Winnipeg Lectures and Related Essays.
• Young-Eisendrath, Polly. (1994). Struggling with Jung: The value of uncertainty. The Round Table Review (March/April 1995)

Other useful tools

• A Dictionary link
• The On-line Encyclopedia Britannica (campus users only)
• The CFLC Reference Desk
• AltaVista search engine

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Psych 109g: Notes, Updates, Breaking Stories

7/19/00: Check out the Library’s Ereserve for this course. The password is “personality,” and the reserve is only available from within the tri-co Internet domain. You’ll need Adobe’s PDF viewer and Javascript for this to work.

4/17:00: The Essay Final is now available.

3/31/00: I’ve rescheduled the first exam from Monday to next Wednesday, April 5. It will cover content through today’s assignment and lecture. I’ll be posting advice for the anxiously-preparing this weekend.

3/17/00: Today’s lecture is now on the Haverford streaming server. It should start playing on your computer a few seconds after you click that link. If you have an older system you may need to install the RealMedia player. Let me know if you’re having trouble.

3/15/00: Prosthetic gods?

I'll be making an announcement in class about credit for participation in Psychology Department experiments. There is a Departmental expectation of two hours per semester participation in projects being run by Psych faculty and majors. You receive credit for this as part of your Psych 108e and 109h grades. Details are in the Departmental Web link Participating in Psychological Experiments.

The Psych 109g Film Series
The Internet Movie Database

· Shadowlands (Magill reserve)

· Freud: A Life: Episode 3: "The Secret of Dreams" (Magill reserve) (An excerpt in RealPlayer format)

· My So-Called Life: Six Episodes [v. 1] Dancing in the dark; Guns and gossip -- [v. 2] Father figures; The zit -- [v. 3] Pilot ; So-called Angel (Magill reserve)

· Wild Strawberries (Magill reserve)

Direct comments and questions to ddavis@haverford.edu.

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