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The sessions focus on the difference between rational knowledge and irrational knowing. Whereas the first one is once and again confirmed in our daily life, in the importance of science today and in the strong belief that we can measure all things, the second one is clearly forgotten and underestimated. Strangely enough it is the second one that rules the most important things in our life. Such questions as: why do we love ?, why do we act ?, and why do we live ? illustrate that we seem to 'know' a lot more than the strictly rational.

The 'knowledge' of the body and the sense, the outer, inner and upper world, ... views of guest speakers and student presentations about this matter will be the subject of the seminar 'Irrational Knowing'.

Luis Bunuel (dreams), Tarkovski (spiritual knowing), Ingmar Bergman (memories, anxiety), Dardenne movies (Le Fils) (the son) and L'enfant (the child) on moral knowing, De Sade (sexual knowing), Claire Dennis (intuitive knowing), David Lunch (Inland Empire)(subconscious knowing), Edvard Munch, Vincent Van Gogh, Marlene Dumas, ...

Intuition, dreams, sexual lust, ancesters and genes, spiritual knowing, the unconscious, moral knowing, the big reservoir of the irrational,... all sources of insight and meaning.

Input of all students. All participants will present their own work and link it to the 'irrational knowing'.

Discussons, debate, sharing of views.

Studiemateriaal

Introductory notes by Johan Teirlinck

Toelichting onderwijstaal

English

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Evaluation

50 % written exam/evaluation (in December/January, possibly outside the exam period)

50 % personal presentation of your work, and feedback given to other students