Thinking about the mind - freud & philosophy

Richmond and Hillcroft Adult Community College

Vocational qualification

In Richmond upon Thames

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    Vocational qualification

  • Location

    Richmond upon thames

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Course Overview:
Sigmund Freud was always keen to claim that his thought was nothing to do with Philosophy, and yet he has been influential throughout the Twentieth Century in stimulating Philosophers to recast their subject. Using Freud’s texts as a starting point, we consider his influence on Philosophers of all traditions.

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Richmond upon Thames (London)
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Parkshot, TW9 2RE

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  • Philosophy
  • Philosopher
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Course programme

Course Content:
All readings will be provided, but interested students could helpfully read Jonathan Lear’s Freud (Routledge 2015) which is a compelling introduction to Freud as Philosopher.




Week 1: Freud as Philosopher: Origins — Kant and Nietzsche



Week 2: Freud’s philosophical tendencies



Week 3: Philosophical reactions to Freud 1: Martin Heidegger



Week 4: Philosophical reactions to Freud 2: Existential Psychoanalysis



Week 5: Sartre’s critique of Freud



Week 6: Marcuse on Freud: Eros and Civilisation



Week 7: Habermas and Freud: Knowledge and Human Interests



Week 8: Ricoeur, Hermeneutics, and Freud: Freud and Philosophy



Week 9: Critiquing Freud: Grunbaum’s The Foundations of Psychoanalysis



Week 10: Analytic Philosophy and Freud: Lear


Suggested readings:

The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique, Adolf Grunbaum. U. of California Press 1984

Irrationality and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis, Sebastian Gardner. Cambridge UP 1993

Love and Its Place in Nature: A Philosophical Interpretation of Freudian Psychoanalysis, Jonathan Lear. Faber and Faber 1992

Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life, Jonathan Lear. Harvard 2002

Freud and the Non-European, Edward Said. Verso 2003

Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher, A.I. Tauber. Princeton U.P. 2010

Freud, Richard Wollheim. Fontana 1971



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