The Emergence of the Unconscious: From Ancient Healing to Psychoanalysis

Semester and Year	FA 2010
Course Number	IDSEM-UG1188
Section	001
Instructor	Lee Robbins
Days	Tue,Thu
Time	9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Units	4.0
Level	U
Foundation Requirement	SOC

Description

Recognized in the modern world as Freud’s id and Jung’s collective unconscious, what we call the unconscious has a long and dignified ancestry in the ancient art of psychotherapy and in the histories of religion, philosophy and medicine. The focus of this course is to trace the history of the idea of the unconscious from the Upanishads, Plato and Augustine through the Enlightenment, Freud, Jung and beyond, to the linguistic analyses of Derrida and Kristeva, and recent discoveries in the genetic roots of consciousness.

Course Type

Interdisciplinary Seminars (IDSEM-UG)