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Syllabus Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis (Heidegger and Freud) - 15332
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Last update 01-09-2024
HU Credits: 2

Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor)

Responsible Department: Philosophy

Semester: 1st Semester

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Christoph Schmidt

Coordinator Email: christoph.schmidt08@gmail.com

Coordinator Office Hours: Tuesdays 9.30 - 10.30

Teaching Staff:
Prof. Christoph Schmidt

Course/Module description:
We shall compare Freud's Psychoanalysis and Heidegger's Phenomneology as two therapeutic strategies. While Psychoanalysis focusses on the anxieties motivated by the Unconscious and sexuality, Phenomenology focusses on anxieties as bridegs to the being of the self and its freedom. We are especially interested in the connections between the two strategies which were adopted by existential anaysis.

Course/Module aims:
Knowledge of the texts

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Knowledge

Attendance requirements(%):
full

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Lecture, Reading, Debating

Course/Module Content:
Psychoanalysis
Phenomenology
Consciousness
Unconscious
Self
Subjectivity
Freedom
Care
Eros
Death

Required Reading:
Freud
1 The Question of Layman's analysis
2 On the Dynamics of Tranference
3 On the transference of Love
4 Totem and Tabu

Heidegger:
1 Introduction into Phenomnenology
2 Being and Time
3 What is Metaphysics
4 Lectrue on Parmenides

Additional Reading Material:
Freud
1 Culture and its Discontent
2 Future of an Illusion
3 Moses and Monotheism

Heidegger
1 The Sentence of the Ground
2 Lectures on Nietzsche
3 Plato's Theory of Truth

Grading Scheme :
Home Exam % 75
Active Participation / Team Assignment 25 %

Additional information:
 
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