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
Credits
4
Pre-requisites
None
Co-requisites
None
Can be taken twice for credit?
No
Discipline
PL (Philosophy)
Level
Undergraduate
Type
GE115
CAMS ID
2962
Last update with CAMS
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
Term Code Name
Spring 2021 PL2072 FREUD & NIETZSCHE