What is psychoanalysis? What are its goals and its achievements, its problems and its guiding questions? How can we approach psychoanalytic practice philosophically? This course will be guided by theoretical explorations and group discussions on the grounding texts of psychoanalysis. We will approach psychoanalysis through conceptual analysis and philosophical inquiry, highlighting the existential and the theoretical problems raised by psychoanalytic practice.
Participating in the course discussions will help you gain, question, and renew insights into psychoanalysis understood as a critical tool and as a unique introspective experience. The guiding idea of the course is that the access to the philosophical reflection on psychoanalytic experience is open to any individual willing to question the history of their own desires, as well as the ideals, the fantasies and the ideologies guiding their culture(s).
Participating in the course discussions will help you gain, question, and renew insights into psychoanalysis understood as a critical tool and as a unique introspective experience. The guiding idea of the course is that the access to the philosophical reflection on psychoanalytic experience is open to any individual willing to question the history of their own desires, as well as the ideals, the fantasies and the ideologies guiding their culture(s).
- Teacher: Delia Popa
