Course detail

Creative Thinking - winter

FaVU-KRM-ZAcad. year: 2016/2017

Fairy-tales help decode metaphorically enciphered secrets of our inner worlds. The meaning of fairy-tales.
practical analyses of concrete fairy-tales. Searching for the lost balance between male and female elements of the self.

Bibliography:

Marie-Louise von Franz: Psychologický výklad pohádek. Smysl pohádkových vyprávění podle jungovské archetypové psychologie. Portál, Praha 1998.
Jana Heffernanová: Tajemství dvou partnerů. Argo, Praha 2008.
Bernard Roger: Objevování alchymie. Hermovo umění v pohádkách, dějinách a zednářských rituálech. Malvern, Praha 2005.
Stein Murray /Lionel Corbett: Příběhy duše. Moderní jungiánský výklad pohádek I. Emitos/Nakladatelství Tomáše Janečka, Brno 2006.
Stein Murray /Lionel Corbett: Příběhy duše. Moderní jungiánský výklad pohádek II. Emitos, Brno 2006.
Stein Murray /Lionel Corbett: Příběhy duše. Moderní jungiánský výklad pohádek III. Emitos, Brno 2008.
Jan Stern: Média, psychoanalýza a jiné perverze. Malvern, Praha 2006.
Jan Stern: Totem, incest a odkouzlení buržoazie. Malvern, Praha 2007.


Pomocná literatura:
Robert Bly: Železný Jan. Argo, Praha 2005.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Theoretical basics of creative thinking.

Prerequisites

None.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations..

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Credit.

Course curriculum

The Syllabus:
1. Theoretical preparation.
2. The analysis of narratives and the main characters of fairy-tales.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Readers will be acquainted with methods of understanding both their own and other people's dreams. They will learn to creatively work with dreams so that their mental element will be creatively fulfilled in ther practical life. they will also learn to perceive dreams as the symbolic polysemy of reality.
Students will learn to find meanings and consequences between art and applied psychology.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Lectures are optional.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Michael Barkun: A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America
Robert Bly: Železný Jan. Argo, Praha 2005.
Robert Bly, Marion Woodmanová: Král panna. Argo, Praha 2002.
Michael Moynihan: Lords of Chaos. The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground
Marie-Louise von Franz: Psychologický výklad pohádek - Smysl pohádkových vyprávění podle jungovské archetypové psychologie, Portál, Praha 1998.
Adam Parfrey: Apocalypse Culture

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme Bachelor's

    branch , 1. year of study, winter semester, elective

  • Programme Bachelor's

    branch ATD , 3. year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

52 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

Mind control through advertising.
Biological resurrection of Jesus Christ through modern cloning technologies.
Interview with a convicted murder and cannibal who became a celebrity.
Recipes for cooking babies.
Homunculus.
Paedophilia.