Existential Psychoanalytic
Institute & Society
2019-2020
Seminar
Curriculum
1ST DRAFT 1.1.19
*There may be small modifications in the reading depending upon
the needs of the EPIS community.
*Default is Mountain Time. Please adjust your
calendar depending upon your time zone.
Session 1:
September 6 & September 7 (2019)
Applied & Clinical Phenomenology/Psychoanalytic-Existential Analysis:
(Friday, 4-6 p.m. MT)
Bion
The Clinical Thinking of Wilfried Bion, Symington, Routledge, 1996.
1 – The theoretical disjunction between Bion and Freud/Klein p. 1
2 – Bion: His character p. 14
3 – The Emotional Catalyst p. 27
4 – The Grid p. 31
Note: We will engage in a reading of the text from a theoretical and clinical perspective, but also consider phenomenology and critical theory as part of
methodology.
Transcendental/Existential Phenomenology:
(Friday, 6-8 p.m. MT)
Patocka
Body, Community, Language, World. Jan Patocka. Translated by Erazim Kohak. Edited by James Dodd. Chicago, IL: Open Court, 1999.
Part One – Body and the Personal Structure of Experience p. 1
First Lecture – Subject Body and Ancient Philosophy p. 3
Second Lecture – Body and Person – Descartes p. 9
Third Lecture – Body and Person – Modern Philosophy p. 19
Fourth Lecture – Personal Space: Reflection, Horizon p. 29
Fifth Lecture – Life’s Dynamics: Intentionality p. 39
Recommended (Primary)
Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History. Jan Patocka. Translated by Erazim Kohák. Edited by James Dodd. Chicago, IL: Open Court, 1996.
Recommended (Secondary)
Edward F. Findlay, Caring for the soul in a postmodern age: politics and phenomenology in the thought of Jan Patočka
Jacques Derrida, The Gift of Death
Erazim Kohak, Jan Patocka: Philosophy and Selected Writings
Psychoanalysis & Philosophy:
(Saturday, 10-noon p.m., MT)
Lacan
Ecrits, The First Complete Edition in English, Lacan, Article 24 (“The Signification of the Phallus”) Note: This is a review from last year, but because it is such an important concept, we are looking at it again.
I may have a good summary article on this.
Critical Theory, Cultural Criticism & Psychoanalysis:
(Saturday, noon-2 p.m. MT)
Malabou
Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience, Johnston, Malabou Columbia, 2013
Part I. Go Wonder: Subjectivity and Affects in Neurobiological Times p. 1
Introduction: From the Passionate Soul to The Emotional Brain p. 3
What Does “Of” Mean in Descartes’s Expression, “The Passions of The Soul?” p. 12
Session 2:
December 6 & December 7 (2019)
Applied & Clinical Phenomenology/Psychoanalytic-Existential Analysis:
(Friday, 4-6 p.m. MT)
Bion
The Clinical Thinking of Wilfried Bion, Symington, Routledge, 1996.
4 – The Grid – Review
5 – Myth and the Grid
6 – Container-Contained
7 – Alpha Function
Transcendental/Existential Phenomenology:
(Friday, 6-8 MT)
Patocka
Body, Community, Language, World. Jan Patocka. Translated by Erazim Kohak. Edited by James Dodd. Chicago, IL: Open Court, 1999.
Part One – Body and the Personal Structure of Experience p. 1
Sixth Lecture – Recapitulation. Personal Situational Structures p. 47
Seventh Lecture – Recapitulation. Personal Situational Structures p. 55
Eighth Lecture – I and the Other: Appresentation and Being-With p. 83
Ninth Lecture – Being-in-The-Body and Phenomenology p. 69
Tenth Lecture – Three Types of Phenomenology p. 77
Psychoanalysis & Philosophy:
(Saturday, 10-noon p.m. MT)
Lacan
Ecrits, Lacan, Article 25 (“In Memory of Earnest Jones: On His Theory of Symbolism”); Article 26 (“On an Ex Post Facto Syllabary”)
Critical Theory, Cultural Criticism & Psychoanalysis:
(Saturday, noon-2 p.m. MT)
Malabou
Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience, Johnston, Malabou Columbia, 2013
A “Self-Touching You”: Derrida and Descartes p. 19
The Neural Self” Damasio Meets Descartes p. 26
Session 3:
March 6 & 7 (2020)
Applied & Clinical Phenomenology/Psychoanalytic-Existential Analysis:
(Friday, 4-6 p.m. MT)
Bion
The Clinical Thinking of Wilfried Bion, Symington, Routledge, 1996.
8 – A Diagnosis of Thought
9 – Psychic Reality
10 – The Growth of Thought
11 – Transformations
Transcendental/Existential Phenomenology:
(Friday, 6-8 p.m. MT)
Patocka
Body, Community, Language, World. Jan Patocka. Translated by Erazim Kohak. Edited by James Dodd. Chicago, IL: Open Court, 1999.
Part Two – Being in the World: Two Phenomenologies
Eleventh Lecture – Husserl’s and Heidegger’s Phenomenology p. 89
Twelfth Lecture – Existence, Phenomenon p. 99
Thirteenth Lecture – Reflections as the Practice of Self-Discovery p. 109
Fourteenth Lecture – Phenomenology Within the Limits of Experience p. 119
Fifteenth Lecture – World of Objects and Pragmata
Psychoanalysis & Philosophy:
(Saturday, 10-noon p.m. MT)
Lacan
Ecrits, Article 27 (“Guiding Remarks for a Convention on Female Sexuality”)
Critical Theory, Cultural Criticism & Psychoanalysis:
(Saturday, noon-2 p.m. MT)
Malabou
Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience, Johnston, Malabou Columbia, 2013
Affects Are Always Affects Of Essence: Book 3 of Spinoza’s Ethics p. 35
The Face And The Close-up: Deleuze’s Spinozist Approach to Descartes p. 43
Session 4:
June 5 and June 6 (2020)
Applied and Clinical Phenomenology/Psychoanalytic-Existential Analysis:
(Friday, 4-6 p.m. MT)
Bion
The Clinical Thinking of Wilfried Bion, Symington, Routledge, 1996.
12 – The Study of Groups
13 – The Phenomenology of Psychosis
14 – Without Memory or Desire
15 – Ultimate Reality, Mystic and the Establishment
Epilogue
Transcendental/Existential Phenomenology:
(Friday, 6-8 p.m. MT)
Patocka
Body, Community, Language, World. Jan Patocka. Translated by Erazim Kohak. Edited by James Dodd. Chicago, IL: Open Court, 1999.
Part Two – Being in the World: Two Phenomenologies
Sixteenth Lecture – Affection and Sensibility
Seventeenth Lecture – Care and the Three Movements of Human Life
Eighteenth Lecture –Care and the Three Movements of Human Life
Nineteenth Lecture –Phenomenality, Being, and the Reduction
Twentieth Lecture – Personal Spatiality, Heidegger
Psychoanalysis & Philosophy:
(Saturday, 10-noon p.m.)
Lacan
Ecrits, Lacan Article 28 (“The Youth of Gide, or the Letter and Desire”)
Critical Theory, Cultural Criticism & Psychoanalysis:
(Saturday, noon-2 p.m. MT)
Malabou
Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience, Johnston, Malabou, Columbia, 2013
Damasio As A Reader Of Spinoza p. 50
On Neural Plasticity, Trauma, And The Loss of Affects p. 56
Conclusion p. 63
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