In Treatment: Freud and His Cultural Legacies

4 credits · Undergraduate

The father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, is back with a vengeance. This seminar examines issues raised by Freud and their implications for understanding human culture. Topics include: dreams and the unconscious, gender and sexuality, death and loss, religion and group psychology, and war and peaceful community. Class discussions will be devoted to Freud’s major writings along with texts by his interlocutors, successors, and critics such as Josef Breuer, Carl Jung, Jacques Lacan, Frantz Fanon, Luce Irigaray, Judith Butler, Edward Said, and Jacqueline Rose.