Psychoanalysis Beyond Freud

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This course will introduce students to some of the major developments in psychoanalysis that have taken place in Freud"s wake. While stressing the broad interdisciplinary scope of psychoanalytic thought, we will also take seriously the insistence of Freud and others that what psychoanalysts know, they know from their clinical experience. Students in this course will become familiar with the concepts and theories of the main schools of post-Freudian psychoanalysis and with the extension of psychoanalytic theory from its origins in clinical psychotherapy into various nonclinical fields"in particular, the study of history and society"by way of a deepening knowledge of the narcissistic and psychotic structures of the mind. Topics include child analysis, object relations, sex and gender, feminism and psychoanalysis, Marxism and psychoanalysis, race/racism, and narcissism. Readings include works by Melanie Klein, Christopher Lasch, Juliet Mitchell, Wilhelm Reich, and D. W. Winnicott, among others.