Key Concepts of Psychoanalytic Theory: Breadth and Horizons

This course is a separate continuation of the course "Key Concepts of Psychoanalysis" and simultaneously a broad introduction to psychoanalysis beyond its traditional central current. The course broadens the main psychoanalytic narrative of neurosis with several other dynamic concepts - e.g. psychosis, perversion, and borderline - and other lines of inquiry. We will look at women's and feminist perspectives as well as a number of philosophical and political dimensions and appropriations. Besides Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, the authors we will read include Hélène Cixous, Melanie Klein, André Green, Julia Kristeva, Frantz Fanon, Jacques Derrida, and Slavoj Žižek. Every meeting is supplemented with a work of art or philosophy to facilitate conversation and engagement.