Buddhism began to be seriously studied in the West during the 19 th century. While some though that knowledge of Buddhism would most impact Western religion (e.g., Nietzsche’s reference to a possible “Euro-Buddhism” in On the Genealogy of Morality) or Western philosophy (e.g., Schopenhauer’s comparison of his own philosophy with “the Prajñā-pāramitā of the Buddhists” in The World as Will and Representation), the case can be made that Buddhism’s greatest impact in the West has been on forms of psychotherapy, including psychoanalysis. In this course we will study the engagement of psychoanalysis with Buddhism. We will especially attend to psychoanalytic works that address Buddhism, whether directly or indirectly. But we will also examine materials from Buddhist discourse, to arrive at our own interpretations of the psychoanalytic interpretations of Buddhism. In short, we will engage in the dialectic between psychoanalysis and Buddhism, in the hopes of pushing it further.