Philosophy 128G: Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

Winter 2001 Prof. DiSalle

Jan. 9-11: Introduction: Freud, "Autobiography" (3-41)

Jan. 16-18: Freud, "Preface to Bernheim" (45-48); "Anna O." (60-78); "Katharina" (78-86)

Jan. 23-25: Freud, "Project" (86-89); "Draft K" (89-96); "The Aetiology of Hysteria" (96-111); Letters to Fliess (111-116)

Jan. 30-Feb. 1: Freud, "The Interpretation of Dreams" (129-142); "On dreams" (142-172); "Wolf-man" (400-426)

Feb. 6-8: Freud, "Repression" (568-572); "The unconscious" (572-584); "The Ego and the Id" (628-658); "Observations on transference-love" (378-387); "Negation" (666-669)

Feb. 13-15: Freud, "Totem and Taboo" (481-513); "The Future of an Illusion" (685-722)

Feb: 20-22: Conference week

Feb. 27-Mar. 1: Freud, "Civilization and its Discontents" (722-772); "The question of a Weltanschauung" 783-796

Mar. 6-8: Freud, "Some psychical consequences" (670-678); Diman, "Strange hearts"

Mar. 13-15: Ricoeur, "The question of proof"; Popper, "Science: Conjectures and refutations"

Mar. 20-22: Gruenbaum, "A century of psychoanalysis"; MacMillan, "Psychoanalysis as science"

March 27-29: Shapiro, "The question of historical interpretation"; Davidson, "Paradoxes of irrationality

April 3-5: Review

[*Readings from Freud are in The Freud Reader, ed. Peter Gay, available at the UWO Bookstore; all others are in the course package available at InPrint, UCC 34.]