Study Abroad J-Term Course in Paris & London

Psychoanalysis and Feminism:
French, British, and American Perspectives

This UMAIE course is open to students with junior or senior standing (or permission of the instructors - please ask us!).  Some background in both women's studies and psychology is helpful but is not required.  Students should be eager to learn about the history of both psychoanalysis and feminism.

Course Counts as a 300-Level Elective for
Women's Studies and Psychology.

In this course we draw on the fields of psychology, women's studies, and history as we explore how social conditions, political events, and cultural developments in the three countries influenced intellectual reaction to Freudian theory, and were also influenced by it.  While in Paris we visit the Hospital de la Salpetriere, where Freud studied in the late 1800; the Salvador Dali museum, to see connections between psychoanalysis and Surrealist art of the 1920s-30s; and the Sorbonne University, Luxemborg Gardens, and the Cafe de Flore to experience the 1940s-50s world of French feminist philosopher, Simone de Beauvoir.  In London we visit the Museum of London for an overview of women's lives and political activism in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries; the Bloomsbury district, home of British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft in the late 1800s and feminist author Virginia Woolf in the 1920s; and the last home of Sigmund Freud, to see his collection of artifacts and his famous analysis couch.  We will also see a London theatre production and take a day trip to Hampton Court Palace and Stonehenge. 

This course was last offered January 2007 and will not be offered
in January 2008.  For more information, contact:

Dr. Britain Scott (2-5039), bascott@stthomas.edu
Dr. Ann Johnson (2-5035), a9johnson@stthomas.edu