Freud and the Enterprise of Psychoanalysis

This seminar explores psychoanalysis at the juncture of its multiple meanings: as a therapeutic practice; as a theory of the functioning of the human mind; as a method of textual interpretation; as a cultural critique and a genealogy attempting to account for the origins of morality, religion, art, and other social institutions. In addition to Freud's major works, readings include short writings by Nietzsche, Ferenczi, Lacan, Laplanche, Kristeva, and Irigaray.