PH7906 Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (2016-

2017)
Thursdays, 1.0015.30, room JG5007

Module Tutor: Willow Verkerk

Office: MB2082
W.Verkerk@kingston.ac.uk
Office hours: Wednesday 16.00-17.00 and by appointment

Assessment: One 1,500 word exercise = 20%

One 3,500-4,000 word essay = 80%

Deadlines: 11.00 am Monday 20 February 2017 First Exercise

11.00 am Monday 24 April 2017 Final Essay

PRIMARY TEXTS:

Freud:
Volume VII: A Case of Hysteria, Three Essays on Sexuality and Other
Works
Volume XVIII: Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Group Psychology and Other
Works
IN: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund
Freud republished by Vintage (hereafter SE).
The texts of interest from these volumes are the following:
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality [1905], SEVII, pp. 125-243
Beyond the Pleasure Principle, SEXVIII [1920], pp.3-64
The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman [1920],
SEXVIII, pp.145-172

AND:
Irigaray, Speculum of the Other Woman, trans. Gillian C Gill. New York:
Cornell University Press, 1985.
Butler, The Lesbian Phallus and the Morphological Imaginary in Bodies
That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex. NY/London: Routledge,
1993, pp.28-57.

Other required reading will include the following texts (see pdfs on Study
Space):
Freud:
The Claims of Psycho-Analysis to Scientific Interest [1913], SEXIII
Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning [1911], SE XII
Lecture XXXIII: Femininity, SEXXII
The Economic Problem of Masochism [1924], SEXIX
Lacan:
The Meaning of the Phallus in Mitchell and Rose, eds. Feminine Sexuality:
Jacques Lacan and the cole Freudienne. Macmillan: 1982.

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TEACHING SCHEME:

Week 1 (12/1/2017)How is Psychoanalysis Philosophical?

Freud, The Claims of Psycho-Analysis to Scientific Interest (pdf)
Freud, Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning (pdf)
Optional reading: Arnold Davidson, How to Do the History of
Psychoanalysis: A Reading of Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of
Sexuality. Critical Inquiry 13.2: pp.252-277.

Week 2 (19/1/2017)Freud and the Foundations of Psychoanalysis

Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: I The Sexual Aberrations, SEVII,
pp. 125-172

Week 3 (26/1/2017)Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: II Infantile Sexuality, SEVII, pp.
173-206

Week 4 (2/2/2017)Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: III The Transformation of
Puberty, SEVII, pp.207-243

Week 5 (9/2/2017)On Femininity: Freud and Irigaray

Freud, Lecture XXXIII: Femininity, SEXXII (pdf)
Selection from Irigaray, Speculum of the Other Woman

Week 6 (16/2/2016): READING WEEK

FIRST EXERCISE DUE
1500 words, submission date 11.00 am Monday 20 February, 2017

Week 7 (23/2/2017)Homosexuality
Freud, The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman,
SEXVIII, pp. 145-172
Irigaray, Female Hom(m)osexuality in Speculum of the Other Woman, pp.
98-104

Week 8 (2/3/2017)Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, SEXVIII, pp. 3-33 (sections I-V)

Week 9 (9/3/2017)Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, SEXVIII, pp. 34-64 (sections V-VII)

Week 10 (16/3/2017)Masochism
Freud, The Economic Problem of Masochism, SEXIX (pdf)
Optional reading: Deleuze, Chapters IX-XI in Coldness and Cruelty, trans.
Jean McNeil, New York: Zone, 1989.

Week 11 (23/3/2017)Lacan
Lacan, The Meaning of the Phallus (pdf)

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Week 12 (30/3/2017)Psychoanalysis and Queer Theory
Judith Butler, The Lesbian Phallus and the Morphological Imaginary,
Chapter 2, in Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex

Final Essay 3,500-4,000 words, submission date 11.00 am Monday 24

April 2017

SECONDARY READING

Bion, Wilfred R. 'A Theory of Thinking' [1962] in Second Thoughts. Karnac,

1984 (reprinted from International Journal of Psychoanalysis 43, parts 45,
1962.)
Bion, Wilfred R. Learning From Experience [1962], Chapters 18 and 13
19, Karnac, 1984.
Borsch-Jacobson, Mikke. The Freudian Subject, trans. Catherine Porter.
Stanford University Press, 1988.
Butler, Judith. Bodies and Power, Revisited, Radical Philosophy 114
(July/Aug 2002): pp. 1319.
_____. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex. Routledge,
1993.
_____. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York:
Routledge, 1999.
_____. Giving an Account of Oneself. Forham UP, 2005.
_____. The Psychic Life of Power. Stanford UP, 1997.
_____. Undoing Gender. New York and London: Routledge, 2004.
Cohen, Josh. How to Read Freud. London: Granta, 2005.
Copjec, Joan. Sex and the Euthanasia of Reason in Read My Desire:
Lacan Against the Historicists. Cambridge MA and London: MIT Press,
1994, pp. 201236.
Frosh, Stephen. Key Concepts in Psychoanalysis. London: The British
Library, 2002.
Derrida, Jacques. Freud and the Scene of Writing in Writing and
Difference, trans. Alan Bass. Routledge, 1990.
Deleuze, Gilles. Coldness and Cruelty, trans. Jean McNeil, Chapters IX-XI.
New York: Zone, 1989.
Davidson, Arnold. How to Do the History of Psychoanalysis: A Reading of
Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. Critical Inquiry 13.2:
pp.252-277.
Dean, Tim. Beyond Sexuality. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Dilman, Ilham. Freud and the Mind. Oxford: Blackwell, 1984.
Fink, Bruce. The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance.
Princeton University Press, 1996.
Fanon, Franz. Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Richard Philcox. New York:
Grove Press, 2008.
Frosh, Stephen. Key Concepts in Psychoanalysis. New York University
Press, 2002.
Lacan, Jacques. crits: A Section, trans. Alan Sheridan. Routledge, 1997

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_____. Freuds Papers on Technique, trans. John Forrester. New York:
Norton, 1991.
_____. On Feminine Sexuality, trans. Bruce Fink. New York: Norton, 1998.
_____. The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, trans. Alan
Sheridan, New York/London: Norton, 1981.
Laplanche J. and J-B Pontalis, The Language of Psychoanalysis, trans.
Donald Nicholson-Smith. London: Karnac/Institute of Psychoanalysis, 1988.
Laplanche, Jean and Serge Leclaire. The Unconscious: A Psychoanalytic
Study, Yale French Studies 48, 1972.
Soler, Colette. What Lacan Said About Women: A Psychoanalytic Study,
trans. John Holland. New York: Other Press, 2006.
Lear, Jonathan. Freud. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Lyotard, Jean-Franois. The Dream-Work Does Not Think, trans. Mary
Lydon in Andrew Benjamin, ed., The Lyotard Reader, Blackwell, Oxford,
1989.
Marcuse, Herbert, Eros and Civilisation: A Philosophical Enquiry into Freud,
any edition.
Mills, Jon ed. Rereading Freud: Psychoanalysis Through Philosophy. SUNY
Press, 2012.
Milton, Jane, Caroline Plomear and Julia Fabricius. A Short Introduction to
Psychoanalysis. Sage, 2011.
Mitchell, Juliet. Psychoanalysis and Feminism. London: Penguin, 1974.
Mitchell and Rose, eds. Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the cole
Freudienne. Macmillan: 1982.
Neu, Jerome, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Freud. Cambridge
Unviersity Press, 1991.
Robinson, Paul A. The Freudian Left: Willhelm Reich, Geza Roheim,
Herbert Marcuse. Harper & Rowe, 1969.
Rubin, Gayle 'The Traffic in Women: Notes on the Political Economy of Sex',
in Rayna R. Reiter, ed., Toward and Anthropology of Women, Monthly
Review Press 1975: 157210.
Sandford, Stella. The Origins and Ends of Sexin Ray Brassier and
Christian Kerslake, eds., Origins and Ends of the Mind: Philosophical
Essays on Psychoanalysis, University of Leuven Press, Leuven, 2007: 163
183.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Being and Nothingness, trans. Hazel Barnes. Routledge,
2003.
Silverman, Kaja. The Lacanian Phallus, differences 4.1 (1992): pp. 84
115.
Van Haute, Philippe. The Introduction of the Oedipus Complex and the
Reinvention of Instinct, Radical Philosophy 115 (Sept/Oct 2002).
_____. Freud Against Oedipus?, Radical Philosophy 188 (Nov/Dec 2014).
Van Haute, Philippe and Tomas Geyskens. A Non-Oedipal Psychoanalysis?
A Clinical Anthropology of Hysteria in the Work of Freud and Lacan.
Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2012.