Cultural, Spiritual, & Political Issues

(1-2 Credits)

With increasing frequency, psychoanalysts understand that cultural and societal realities saturate an individual’s subjectivity. Going beyond traditional “culture and personality" factors, contemporary psychoanalysis interrogates race and discrimination, ethnicity, class, religion, community, and climate change. We discuss and debate language, critical race theory, and the body. This area of study contains various course sections addressing selected topics.