Searched this up out of curiosity because this was my favourite subject in my entire bachelor's, and I'm a science student. Completely disagree with the previous reviewer: yes there were quite some readings, but the lecturer made it very clear which were principal and which were supplementary, so you really only had to read around 30 pages a week, which is okay considering it's a level-three arts subject. The slides did have long quotes, but they helped with picking out which bits of the reading were important, and made referencing for the essay easy too, because the slides included which page each quote was from. The people in tutorials were very arts-y, but once again it's a 3xxxx arts subject, and they offered really interesting connections that they saw between the lecture content and their understandings in philosophy and history. I would admit that the first two weeks were about the origins of psychoanalysis and an important case study done by Freud, so it is a bit historical (and dry), but it got really interesting and psychoanalytical from W3 onwards. This is a subject that really makes you re-think and refine your world view: are humans born good? What natural conditions are there about being human, and how have we domesticated ourselves for social life? The content is hard though, so if you're looking for a relaxing arts subject, this is not for you. They do not give out H1's easily. But if you're up for some deep consideration and reflection about what it means to be a human in society, this is the best subject there is.

Anonymous, Semester 2, 2020

Lecture slides only contain quotes without further explanation, and you just need to listen to the lecturer giving a storytelling for 90 minutes straight. There were TOO many readings in a week, as far as I remember, we had 3 readings per week and each reading can have 20+ pages. Tutorials are full of philosophic students and I was struggling to get along with them (maybe because I'm not interested in philosophy nor history). I dropped this subject after struggling for two weeks and swapped to the other arts elective. Don't get deceived by "psychoanalysis" in the subject name, because the contents are all about history.

Anonymous, Semester 2, 2020