Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology & Anthropology: GCAS PhD Seminar Fall 2020

Instructor: Kevin Boileau, PhD

Course Schedule

September 20 - November 22 on Sundays at 1PM Mountain Time

Course Requirements 

• Read assigned texts

• Participate in the live discussion and in the seminar forum

• Complete a Research Paper

Reading Materials

Kevin Boileau, Essays on Phenomenology and the Self, EPIS Press, 2012.

Kevin Boileau, Critical Existential Psycho-Analysis, EPIS Press, 2014.

Sigmund Freud, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works, Hogarth.

Stephen Mitchell and Margaret Black, Freud and Beyond, Basic Books, 1995.

Ed. Marilyn Charles, Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Routledge, 2018.

Andre Green, Key Ideas for a Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Routledge, 2005.

Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, Hackett, 1993.

Edmund Husserl, Cartesian Meditations, Humanities Press, 1960.

Edmund Husserl, Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology, Collier, Macmillan, 1962.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, Washington Square Press, 1993.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Humanism, Haskell House, 1977.

Jean-Paul Sartre, The Transcendence of the Ego, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1957.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Notebooks for an Ethics, University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Jean-Paul Sartre, The Psychology of Imagination, Methuen, 1972.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason, New Left Board, 1976.

Jean-Paul Sartre, The Family Idiot, University of Chicago Press, 1981.

Michel Foucault, Essential Works, The New Press, 1997.

Michel Foucault, The Birth of the Clinic, Pantheon, 1973.

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish, Vintage, 1979.

Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Vintage, 1980.

Michel Foucault, “The Ethic of Care for the Self as a Practice of Freedom” in James Bernauer and David Rasmussen, eds, The Final Foucault, Cambridge Press, 1988.

Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow, Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, University of Chicago Press, 1983
Gabriel Marcel, The Philosophy of Existentialism, Citadel, 2002.

Gabriel Marcel, Being and Having, Beacon, 1951.

Gabriel Marcel, The Mystery of Being, Gateway, 1970.

Gabriel Marcel, Homo Viator, Harper and Row, 1965.

Technology and Environment

Students will need to have a computer and access to the internet, and to Zoom (free to download here: https://zoom.us). The mobile phone zoom app will work as long as the student has a way to use it hands free (we may need both our hands to make sound!). Students will also need a private, relatively quite space, to attend meetings, in order to make sound in uninhibited ways. 

Assessment

1. Participation/Attendance

2. Raising questions and engaging with the course materials

3. Final Research Paper of 2,500 words

Description

“Towards a Reconciliation of Psychoanalysis with Existential Phenomenology: New Paths for the Human Anthropology”

This introductory fall course is Part 1 (10 sessions) with Part 2 (10 sessions) following in spring 2021. Part 1 of the course comprises 3 sections.  First, it explores phenomenological criticism of the Western natural science model's impact on Freudian meta-psychology and philosophy of mind. Second, it explores phenomenological analysis of post-Freudian drive theory, object relations, and Lacan. Third, it reviews this body of psychoanalysis from the perspective of some of the work of Foucault, Marcel, and Sartre. With time permitting, the course then introduces contemporary psychoanalysis, especially the turn toward inter-relational theory, existential-ontological possibilities, and a reconstruction of subjectivity and the self, focused toward a post-humanist anthropology. The course covers several major thinkers and complex theory, requires significant study and contemplation, and both written and oral work by the students. Part 2 of this 20-course course will begin where we leave off at the end of 2020. For students wanting to continue, there will be a similar format for an intermediate-level; one year course; an advanced one-year course; and a special problems-oriented course that follows the introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels.

Prerequisite BA in philosophy and/or psychology or related field. The instructor may also grant permission to take the seminar. If you are taking this seminar as “non-credit” you do not need prior approval.

Learning Outcomes

• Enhanced critical writing and thinking skills

• Gain a deeper and more critical comprehension and grasp on  the conceptual anchors of 20th-Century psychoanalysis.

• Gain a introductory and intermediate understanding of some of the main tenets of 20th-Century phenomenology and introductory 

• Gain the ability to critically review and analyze psychoanalysis from the perspective of phenomenology

• An advanced ability to shift your thinking between different discourses, i.e., phenomenology and psychoanalysis.

Earn GCAS Crypto-Tokens:

Once the participant completes this program, they can claim 125 GCAS Tokens “GCASY” via our Crypto Hub.

Enrollment Procedure:

Once a participant pays for tuition they will be issued a “GCAS.ie” google based email a few days prior to the start of the seminar/course. The GCAS.ie email account will be used by the participant to access the course APP Platform in which the researcher will have access to, the Zoom links, recordings, and other course materials provided by the professor. A participant is expected to activate their GCAS.ie email account within 36 hours of issuance.

Refund:

A full refund will be given if after the first meeting you are not satisfied with the program.

Certificate of Completion

A PDF copy of a certificate will be issued to each participant upon successfully completing this program. Should the participant who completes the program desire a hard copy of the certificate be sent to them physically, there will be an additional charge for shipping and handling costs which may vary depending on the participant’s location.

Take this Course for Credit: Tuition Cost 417€

If you are taking this course for 5 Credits you will have additional requirements from the ones listed. If you are seeking 5 Credits in Post-Graduate philosophy, please contact GCAS so we can provide you with the syllabus at contact@gcas.ie