FREUD & NIETZSCHE (PL2072)

An introduction to one of the key orientations of modern philosophy: critical genealogy and its central problematic, the identity and formation of the subject. The aim of critical genealogy is to unearth the hidden and unsuspected mechanisms, whether institutional or familial, which lie behind the formation of individual and social identities.

Code:

PL2072

Name:

FREUD & NIETZSCHE

Discipline:

PL (Philosophy)

Type:

Regular

Level:

Undergraduate

Credits:

Can be taken twice for credit?:

Pre-requisites:

None

Co-requisites:

None

Learning Outcomes

To be able to develop and also to contextualize Freud and Nietzsche’s main questions in depth, and, in the case of Nietzsche, to reconstruct in elementary form the targets of his critique – classical moral philosophy, Christianity, socialism.
To be able to identify and interpret, on the basis of close reading, Nietzsche’s and Freud’s main concepts and theses.
To explain the key discoveries and conceptual steps that led to Freud’s theory of the unconscious and his account of the interpretation of dreams.
To be able to reconstruct, in analytic form, some of Nietzsche and Freud’s key arguments with regard to social and political phenomena

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Term	Code	Name
Fall 2023	PL2072	FREUD & NIETZSCHE

FREUD & NIETZSCHE (PL2072)

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