HNRS 121

Main Course

Psychoanalysis before Freud, and a Little After

Description

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Examination of different ways human beings have developed conceptions of themselves through history from early civilizations through Middle Ages, Renaissance, Reformation, scientific revolution, Enlightenment, origins of modern world, Freud's fin de siècle Vienna, and post-Freudian visions; investigation of various interactions of these different conceptions in present day. P/NP or letter grading.