A university in Mexico is offering a diploma course in Evangelion

Hideaki Anno’s Neon Genesis Evangelion has widely been considered a sci-fi cult classic among anime fans. Fans have long maintained that this show’s psychological aspects may deserve extensive study, a view now validated by Mexico’s Universidad de Londres, which is offering a seven-month diploma course centred on the anime.

According to the university’s official website, the course seeks to explore the human mind through the moving image and analyse the show from different psychoanalytic perspectives, such as the Freudian, Jungian, and Lacanian perspectives, juxtaposed with Japanese cultural influences like Shintoism and Buddhism. Upon completion, participants are expected to analyse Evangelion from solid psychoanalytic conceptual frameworks.

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The course is split into five modules encircling the history of anime, characters in Neon Genesis Evangelion, visual and narrative symbolism, defence mechanisms and themes of psychological anguish, and the role of the show’s viewers. The course focuses a lot on image analysis and developing critical reading of the anime. 

To sign up for the course, one must be of legal age or 18 years old and have an explicit interest in theoretical and critical analysis. There’s no registration fee for the course, but there’s a monthly fee of MXN 1,100, which is around BDT 7,748. The course, set to commence in June 2026, will be conducted online through Zoom every Thursday. 

The course is addressed to all people passionate about anime and film, and their relationship with psychoanalysis, particularly students and graduates of psychology, film, literature, communication, journalism, art, and related professions.