All registrants will receive their link to join via ZOOM. Course material will be sent 1 day before the event. The course will start at 13:30pm and end at 17:00pm on both days and includes a tea break. All attendees will also receive access to the recording, available to watch back for 3 months.
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Freud famously said that Nietzsche possessed such powerful psychological insight that he avoided reading him in order not to be unduly influenced. Rather than their being a relationship of direct influence, however, Freud’s psychological work and Nietzsche’s philosophy flow from a common root – in the thought of Arthur Schopenhauer. We will explore the different pathways that lead from Schopenhauer to Nietzsche’s mature thinking, on the one hand, and from Schopenhauer to Freud’s fundamental psychological concepts, on the other. The course will then explore in depth the relationship between Nietzsche’s thought and psychoanalysis, reading ‘The Birth of Tragedy’, alongside ’Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and ‘On the Genealogy of Morals’ alongside ‘Civilization and its Discontents’. Carl Jung was heavily influenced by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, and we will examine his interpretation of ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’.
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Speaker:
Keith Barrett BA PhD received his first degree in philosophy from Oxford University after having spent three years working as a nursing assistant in psychiatric hospitals. It was in this practical context that Keith first encountered existentialism and psychoanalysis. He then began postgraduate studies on both Freud and Heidegger, leading finally to a PhD from the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL for a dissertation on ‘Freud’s Self-Analysis’. Keith has been a philosophy teacher for over 20 years, and has been delivering courses at the Freud Museum for over a decade, where he has developed a series of introductory lectures on Freud, psychoanalysis after Freud, and the overlap of philosophy and psychoanalysis.
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Tickets £ 45
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