Philosophical Foundations of Psychoanalysis

Catalog description

Rather than considering psychoanalysis as a field of research within psychology, or a form of therapeutic or clinical practice, this course will survey canonical works in psychoanalysis, including but also beyond Freud and Lacan, in an attempt to identify and explicate the philosophical core of psychoanalysis. As part of this survey of psychoanalysis, we will consider psychoanalytically informed discussions of politics, ideology, art, cinema, cultural phenomena and literature.