Philosophy - Winter 1999

J. Neu

I. SOCRATES AND PLATO
Plato: Euthyphro
Apology
Crito (in The Trial and Death of Socrates, trans. Grube, Hackett)
Dworkin, "Civil Disobedience" (in Supplement)

II. DESCARTES
Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy (trans. Cress, Hackett)
Austin, Sense and Sensibilia, Chapter VII (in Supplement)
Nagel, "Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness" (in Supplement)

III. HUME
Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Hackett)
Goodman, "The New Riddle of Induction" (in Supplement)

IV. KANT
Kant: Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals (trans. Ellington, Hackett)
O'Neill, "Kantian Approaches to Some Famine Problems" (in Supplement)
Williams, "The Idea of Equality" (in Supplement)

V. SARTRE and WITTGENSTEIN
Sartre, "Existentialism is a Humanism" (in Existentialism and Human Emotions, trans. Frechtman, Citadel)
Wittgenstein: The Blue Book (Harper and Row)

* The reading for this course will consist of seminal works by major philosophers, along with contemporary articles on related issues. Students will be expected to participate in discussion sections and to write four brief papers (2-3 typed pages each) in connection with different major works, and a longer final paper (6-10 typed pages) relating Sartre or Wittgenstein to some of the earlier themes.

* The course books will be available at The Literary Guillotine.

* The Supplement will be available at the Campus Copy Center

J. Neu

THE DEVELOPMENT OF FREUD'S CONCEPT OF MIND

All volume references are to The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (all 24 volumes of which are on reserve); separate references to the paperback editions and supplement are given where necessary. FR* refers to pages in The Freud Reader, ed. Peter Gay (Norton, 1989).

I. INTRODUCTION

II. FIRST FORMULATIONS: ABREACTION, CONFLICT, AND DEFENCE
Studies on Hysteria: Standard Edition Vol. II, 'Preliminary Communication,' and cases of Anna O., Lucy R., and Katharina--pp. 3-47, 106-134.
('Preliminary Communication' in Supplement. Anna O. in FR*60-78. Lucy R. in Supplement. Katharina in FR*78-86.)
'The Neuro-Psychoses of Defence': SE Vol. III, pp. 45-61 (in Supplement).

III. THE ORIGINS OF THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: THE 'PROJECT'
The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess: 1887-1904, pp. 127-140.
'Project for a Scientific Psychology' : SE Vol. 1, pp. 295-302, 347-359 (in Suppl.).

IV. THE BIRTH OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY
Freud-Fliess Letters: pp. 116-127 and pp. 140-281.

V. PHANTASY AND MEMORY

VI. THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS
The Interpretation of Dreams: SE Vol. IV, Chs. II, III, IV, V A, Db, VI A, B, C; SE Vol. V, Chs. VI I, VII B, C, E, F. (Same chapters in paperback edition.)

VII. INTERPRETING DREAMS

VIII. THE ANALYSIS OF HYSTERIA--THE CASE OF DORA
Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria: SE Vol. VII, pp. 3-122 (FR*172-239).

Recommended:
Erik Erikson, 'Reality and Actuality'
Steven Marcus, 'Freud and Dora: Story, History, Case History'
Both included in C. Bernheimer and C. Kahane, eds. In Dora's Case: Freud-Hysteria-Feminism.

MIDTERM

IX. THE THEORY OF SEXUALITY
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: SE Vol. VII, pp. 125-243 (FR*239-293).

Recommended:
Thomas Nagel, 'Sexual Perversion,' in Mortal Questions.

X. UNCONSCIOUS PHANTASY AND NEUROSIS: MEANING AND CAUSALITY
'Types of Onset of Neurosis': SE Vol. XII, pp. 231-238 (in Supplement).
"'Civilized" Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous Illness': SE Vol. IX, pp. 181-204 (in Supplement).
'On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love': SE Vol. XI, pp. 179-190 (FR*394-400).

XI. SYMPTOM, CHARACTER & CULTURAL PRACTICE: EVIDENCE & EXPLANATION
'Character and Anal Eroticism': SE Vol. IX, pp. 167-175 (FR*293-297).
'Obsessive Actions and Religious Practices': SE Vol. IX, pp. 117-127 (FR*429-436).

XII. THE ANALYSIS OF PHOBIAS--THE CASE OF LITTLE HANS
Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy: SE Vol. X, pp. 5-149. (The Sexual Enlightenment of Children, pp. 47-183.)

Recommended:
Wolpe and Rachman, 'Psychoanalytic Evidence: A Critique Based on Freud's Case of Little Hans,' in Critical Essays on Psychoanalysis, ed. S. Rachman.

XIII. THE ANALYSIS OF OBSESSIONAL NEUROSIS--THE CASE OF THE RAT MAN
Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis: SE Vol. X, pp. 153-250. (Three Case Histories, pp. 15-102.)
Recommended: 'Original Record': SE Vol. X, pp. 259-318 (FR*309-350).

XIV. THE NATURE OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY
'The Dynamics of the Transference': SE Vol. XII, pp. 99-108 (in Supplement).
'Remembering, Repeating and Working Through': SE Vol. XII, pp. 147-156 (in Supplement).
'Observations on Transference Love': SE Vol. XII, pp. 159-171 (FR*378-387).

Recommended:
Lévi-Strauss, 'The Sorcerer and His Magic' and 'The Effectiveness of Symbols,' in Structural Anthropology.

XV. METAPSYCHOLOGY
'Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning': SE Vol. XII, pp. 218-226 (FR*301-306).
'The Unconscious': SE Vol. XIV, pp. 166-204 (FR*572-584).
'Mourning and Melancholia': SE Vol. XIV, pp. 243-258 (FR*584-589).

Recommended:
'On Narcissism': SE Vol. XIV, pp. 69-102 (FR*545-562).
Sartre, 'Bad Faith,' Part One, Ch. 2 in Being and Nothingness.

XVI. FREUDIAN ANTHROPOLOGY
Totem and Taboo: SE Vol. XIII, Part IV (FR*481-514).

XVII. INSTINCT THEORY AND THE DEATH INSTINCT
Beyond the Pleasure Principle: SE Vol. XVIII, pp. 3-66 (FR*594-626).

XVIII. THE STRUCTURAL THEORY
The Ego and the Id: SE Vol. XIX, pp. 12-59 (FR*628-658).

XIX. THE NEW THEORY OF ANXIETY
'Anxiety and Instinctual Life': SE Vol. XXII, pp. 81-111. (New Introductory Lectures, Lecture XXXII; FR*773-783).

XX. THE SEXUALITY OF WOMEN
'Some Psychical Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction Between the Sexes': SE Vol. XIX, pp. 248-260 (FR*670-678).
'Femininity': SE Vol. XXII, pp. 112-135. (New Introductory Lectures, Lecture XXXIII.)

XXI. FREUDIAN SOCIAL THEORY
Civilization and Its Discontents: SE Vol. XXI, pp. 64-145 (FR*722-772).

The above numbered topics do not correspond to either weeks or particular sessions--we will spend varying amounts of time on each. The list is meant to indicate only the order in which the topics will be treated. Also, while readings are recommended for topics after no. XVI, it is not to be expected that they will be reached in class. They are meant simply as a guide to independent reading for those who are interested.

It should be noted that the reading load for this course is quite heavy (averaging 200 pages a week) and that all of the required reading is by Freud. There is not much point in taking the course if you will not be able to do the reading.

There will be a midterm and a final examination.

Recommended Secondary Sources:
Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time (Norton).
Laplanche and Pontalis, The Language of Psychoanalysis (Norton).
Jerome Neu (Editor), The Cambridge Companion to Freud (Cambridge U.P.).
Richard Wollheim, Freud (Cambridge University Press).

Revised 7/27/04.