PL 429 Freud and Philosophy (Fall: 3)

This course will undertake a consideration of important development and themes in Freudian psychoanalysis. The latter will be addressed as a clinical therapy, and investigated for its philosophical significance. The first part of the course will concentrate on Freud's early work, clinical and theoretical, especially as his study of hysteria yields basic conceptions of body, language and subjectivity. The second part will inquire after the significance of the Freudian subject for contemporary philosophy. In addition to Freud, authors read will include Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Jean Laplanche, Monique David-Menard, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
Jeffrey Bloechl

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