This seminar is a
vehicle for exploring the production and application of personality theories in
the century from Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams to the creation of the
World Wide Web. We’ll take up a series of topics of interest both to
personality psychologists and to cultural theorists, including
·
The
psychodynamics of dream and fantasy
·
The
construction of gender identity and sexuality
·
The
displacement of trauma in ego development
· The construction and projection of self in electronic media
Each of us will
develop essays and demonstrations to share with the seminar.
The following list
of resources will get us started.
Chodorow, N. (1994). Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press.
Freud, S. (1900). The Interpretation of Dreams. New York: Avon.
A copy of Brill's early translation is on Psych Web.
Turkle, S. (1995). Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Anthropology of cyberspace: a review of Life on the Screen by Robert M. Young.
Baumbach, Jim. E Pluribus Unum. Word.
Bruckman, Amy. (1993). Gender swapping on the Internet. Paper presented at The Internet Society, San Fransisco, CA, August 1993.
Bruckman, Amy. (1996). Finding One's Own in Cyberspace.
Cerf, Vinton. (1996). Vint Cerf on the Web, part 2. Educom Review, 31 (4).
Davis, D.A. (1997). Jung in the Psychoanalytic movement. In P. Young-Eisendrath & T. Dawson (Eds.). Cambridge Companion to Jung. Cambridge University Press.
Dibbell, Julian. (1993). A Rape in Cyberspace. The Village Voice, December 21.
Freud, Anna. (1922). Beating fantasies and daydreams.
Haggard, H. Rider. (1886). She. Bibliomania.
Holland, Norman N. (n.d.) The Internet Regression.
Holland,
Norman N. (1992). The Critical I. New York: Columbia University Press. (On-line version at http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/nnh/criti.htm)
Holland, Norman N. (1994). Eliza Meets the Post-Modern.
Hutchens, Jason L. (1996).How to pass the Turing test by cheating.
Jenkins, Henry. (1998). From Home[r] to the Holodeck: New Media and the Humanities.
Rheingold, Howard. (1996). The virtual community.
Pettifor, Eric. (1996). Personality theories and theorists.
Revelle, William. (1995). Personality Processes. Annual Review of Psychology.
Serpentelli, Jill. Conversational Structure and Personality Correlates of Electronic Communication. Haverford College Psychology Thesis.
Sprengnether, Madelon. (1995). Reading Freud's life. American Imago, 52.1 9-54
Turkle, Sherry. (1994). Constructions and Reconstructions of the Self in Virtual Reality. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 1, 3, Summer 1994.
Wahl, Wendy. (1993). Bodies and technologies: Dora, Necromancer, and strategies of resistance. Postmodern Culture, v.3 n.2 (January, 1993).
Young, Robert M. (1995). Psychoanalysis and/of the Internet.
Young, Robert M. (1996). Primitive processes on the Internet.
Young-Eisendrath, Polly (1994). Struggling with Jung: The value of uncertainty. The Round Table Review (March/April 1995)
Young-Eisendrath, Polly. (1995). Myth and body: Pandora'a legacy in a post-modern world.
Sample Class Products (from the first, 1996, seminar “Freud and the Web”)
Comments and questions: mailto:mddavis@haverford.edu