Existential Psychoanalytic Institute & Society
2013-2014 Seminar Curriculum
Learning Centers in Seattle, Missoula, San Francisco
& (remotely) through Skype
*Note: There may be small modifications in the reading
depending upon the needs of the EPIS community
Session 1: September 6 & 7 (Friday, 4-8 p.m. PST)
Phenomenological Process:
Practising Existential Psychotherapy (Read all) & The Interpreted World, Spinelli (Read Chapters 1, 2, 6, and 7);
The Descriptive Phenomenological Method in Psychology, Giorgi (Read as you can over the school year);
Skills in Existential Counselling, Van Deurzen (Read Introduction, Chapters 1-3, the balance over the school year);
Introduction to Phenomenology, Sokolowski (This is good background; read in full as soon as possible.).
Existential Phenomenology:
The Levinas Reader, Ed. Sean Hand (Read (1) “The Phenomenological Theory of Being” and (2) “There is: Existence Without Existents”)
Psychoanalysis & Philosophy: (Saturday, 10-2 p.m., PST)
The Lacanian Subject, Fink (Read Part One: “Structure: Alienation and the Other”)
Suggest the following:
Ecrits, The First Complete Edition in English, Lacan;
Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, ed. Danny Nobus;
Lacan, Lionel Bailly;
The Cambridge Companion to Lacan, Ed. Jean-Michel Rabate;
Jacques Lacan and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis, Ragland-Sullivan
Cultural Criticism & Psychoanalysis:
The Hermeneutics of the Subject, Foucault, Lectures 1981-82 (Lectures 1 & 2)
Session 2: December 6 & 7 (Friday, 4-8 p.m.)
Phenomenological Process:
Same reading as Session 1. Finish all texts. Bring either one clinical case study
or one significant social encounter to share.
Existential Phenomenology:
The Levinas Reader (Read (3) “Time and the Other” and (4) “Martin Buber and the Theory of Knowledge”)
Psychoanalysis & Philosophy: (Saturday, 10-2 p.m.)
The Lacanian Subject (Read Part Two: “The Lacanian Subject”)
Cultural Criticism & Psychoanalysis:
The Hermeneutics of the Subject (Lectures 3 & 4)
Session 3: March 7 & 8 (Friday, 4-8 p.m.)
Phenomenological Process:
Same reading as Session 1 & 2.
Bring either one clinical case study or one significant social encounter to share.
Existential Phenomenology:
The Levinas Reader (Read (5) “Ethics as First Philosophy” and (6) “Substitution”)
Psychoanalysis & Philosophy: (Saturday, 10-2 p.m.)
The Lacanian Subject (Read Part Three: “The Lacanian Object: Love, Desire,
Jouissance“)
Cultural Criticism & Psychoanalysis:
The Hermeneutics of the Subject (Lectures 5 & 6)
Session 4: June 6 & 7 (Friday, 4-8 p.m.)
Phenomenological Process:
Same reading as Session 1, 2, & 3.
Bring either one clinical case study or one significant social encounter to share.
Existential Phenomenology:
The Levinas Reader (Read (7) “Reality and Its Shadow” and (8) “The Transcendence
Of Words”
Psychoanalysis & Philosophy: (Saturday, 10-2 p.m.)
The Lacanian Subject (Read Part Four: “The Status of Psychoanalytic Discourse”)
Cultural Criticism & Psychoanalysis:
The Hermeneutics of the Subject (Lectures 7 & 8)
March 9, 2013 version
Dr. Kevin Boileau, Ph.D., J.D., LL.M.
EPIS curriculum, copyright, 2013-14
Official
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