SemesterFall Semester, 2018
DepartmentMA Program of English, First Year Ph.D. Program in English Literature, First Year MA Program of English, Second Year Ph.D. Program in English Literature, Second Year
Course NameSpecial Topics in Demonic Possession
Instructor
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule
















































































Week



Content



1



Orientations



2



Levack, The Devil Within, Ch. 1



3



Levack, The Devil Within, Ch. 4, 5



4



The New Testament: the gospels of Mark, Luke, John



Thomas, The Devil, Disease and Deliverance, Ch. 8, 9



5



Thacker, In the Dust of This Planet, Ch. 1



6



Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry

Freud, “A Seventeenth-Century Demonological Neurosis”



7



Didi-Huberman, The Invention of Hysteria, Ch. 6



8



Jung and Possession



9



Jung and Possession



10



Foucault, Psychiatric Power, Lecture One,, Two



11



Foucault, Psychiatric Power, Ten, Eleven



12



Foucault, Abnormal, Lecture 8



13













Medical anthropology



Kleimann, The Illness Narratives,


 


14



Csordas, The Sacred Self, Chapter 7



15



Case Studies



De Certeau, The Possession at Loudun, Ch. 1, 2, 3, 7



16



De Certeau, The Possession at Loudun, Ch. 1, 2, 3, 7



17



Deomonic Possession and Popular Culture



18



Oral reports



Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant

無教學助理


Requirement/Grading

Attendance and participation 20%, oral report 20%, three (or more) responses 20%, term paper (10~15 pages) 50%



 


Textbook & Reference

Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. London: Routledge, 1993.

Csordas, Thomas J. The Sacred Self: A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic
Healing. Berkley: U of California P, 1994.



De Certeau, Michel. The Possession at Loudun. Trans. Michael B. Smith. Chicago: The U of Chicago P, 1996.



Didi-Huberman, Georges. Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière. Trans. Alisa Hartz. Cambridge, MA: The    



     MIT Press, 2003.



Duffey, John M. Lessons Learned: The Anneliese Michel Exorcism. Eugene, OR: Wipe & Stock, 2011.



Foucault, Michel. Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France 1974-1975. Trans.



Graham Burchell. Ed. Valerio Marchetti and Antonella Salomoni. New York: Picardo, 1999.



---. Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France 1973-1974. Trans. Graham Burchell. Ed. Jacques Lagrange. New York: Picardo, 2003.



Freud, Sigmund. “A Seventeenth-Century Demonological Neurosis.” The Standard



Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol 19( in 24 Vols). Trans. James Strachey et al. London: The Horgath Press, 1961. 69-105.



Kleimann, Arthur. The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition. New York: Basic Books, 1988.



Levack, Brian P. The Devil within: Possession & Exorcism in the Christian West. New Haven: Yale UP, 2013.



Simpson, Philip. “Fear of the Assimilation of the Foreign Other in The Exorcist.” American Exorcist: Critical Essays on William Peter Blatty. Ed. Benjamin Szumskyj. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 25-44.



Thacker, Eugene. In the Dust of the Planet. Horror of Philosophy Vol. 1. Winchester: Zero Books, 2011.

Thomas, John Christopher. The Devil, Disease and Deliverance: Origins of Illness in
New Testament Thought. Cleveland: CPT Press, 2010.


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