PHIL 476 - The Self: Philosophic and Psychoanalytic Explorations

(3 units) CO13

Interpretations of the self, as separate authentic, interdependent, performative, etc., by Descartes, Kant, Freud, Rousseau, Emerson, Winnicott, Mahler, Hegel, Chodorow, Judith Butler and others.

Prerequisite(s): General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed; at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed; Junior or Senior standing.

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Fall - Odd Years

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. state a thesis about the self and its relationship to others, and critically analyze evidence and argument for the thesis drawing from the psychoanalytic and philosophical literatures.
2. explain some of the principal concepts associated with different psychological and philosophical accounts of the self.
3. identify different elements in the concept of the self as understood in more than one cultural or intellectual tradition.
4. show how psychoanalytic theory is relevant to a philosophical understanding of the self, and indicate how case studies may have philosophical implications.

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