Music in Psychic and Social Life

Catalog description

Students at Stanford and students at a community mental health site co-learn theories and co-create songs in this community-engaged course. From memes to magazines, "psychoanalysis has returned" - perhaps partly in response to crises of the twenty-first century with no easy, rational answers. How do the participatory arts and music align with contemporary psychoanalytic approaches that act at the level of the psychosocial and institutional? We explore in theory and practice how the psychic is social and the social is psychic. The course culminates in a community song-sharing celebration. Note: no musical training is required to take this course. This is a Cardinal Course certified by the Haas Center for Public Service.