Course: Philosophy and psychoanalysis

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Course title Philosophy and psychoanalysis
Course code KFHS/B151
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Tippelt Hynek, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1) Introduction to the subject, topics and literature 2) Philosophical questions of psychological work with the unconscious 3) Relevance of philosophy for psychoanalysis 4) Possibilities of application of psychoanalysis to philosophy 5) Freud as a philosopher 6) Psychoanalytical world view 7) Psychoanalysis and ethics 8) Psychoanalysis and spinosism 9) Instinct theory and the question of instinctuality of instincts 10) The holistic model of the mind 11) Possibility of treatment by thinking 12) Reinterpretation of effects 13) Holistic psychoanalysis 14) Summarizing colloquium

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to get acquainted with the philosophical foundations of psychoanalysis and with the possibilities of applying psychoanalysis to philosophical thinking.
The student will master the philosophical foundations of psychoanalytic theory and look at the possibility of applying psychoanalysis to philosophical thinking.
Prerequisites
none

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
- a presentation in a seminar in the range of 20 minutes - written paper
Recommended literature
  • Freud, S. Budoucnost jedné iluze.
  • Freud, S. O světovém názoru. Praha, 1997.
  • Scharfstein, Ben Ami. The Philosophers: Their Lives and the Nature of Their Thought. New York, 1989.
  • Sigmund Freud. O člověku a kultuře, Praha. 1990.
  • TIPPELT, Hynek. Jindy, jinde a jinak: filosofie a změna paradigmatu očima psychoanalýzy. ISBN 9788087258941.


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