Philosophy & Psychoanalysis
Term:
Spring 2012
Subject Code:
GPHI
Course Number:
6655
This seminar will introduce basic ideas of psychoanalytic theory, but it will also approach them from the perspective of contemporary philosophical concerns, especially concerns in practical philosophy and the philosophy of mind. Topics include freedom, desire, emotions, practical reason, happiness, self-knowledge, irrationality, the first-person, parts of the soul, therapeutic change and irony. We will work with Freud, and with a variety of psychoanalytic (e.g. Lacan) and philosophical readers (e.g., Lear) of Freud
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