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Psychoanalysis has its roots both in the Enlightenment – and in the Romantic reaction against it.
The Enlightenment grew out of the seventeenth century scientific revolution, as a cultural movement centred on belief in the possibility of progress through the use of reason. The Romantic reaction against the Enlightenment, which began to gain momentum in the second half eighteenth century, found the exclusive focus on reason superficial, and emphasised the fundamental importance of feeling and the irrational in human life.
The course will focus on three philosophers who were central in articulating the Enlightenment vision, in bringing it to its highest expression, and in pointing forward to the Romantic revolt against to it. We will trace the continuing importance of their ideas today and examine the way psychoanalysis itself came into being in a unique moment of fusion between the Enlightenment tradition and Romanticism at the very end of the nineteenth century.
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This course took place over 2 sessions in April 2023. Total course duration: approx 6 hours (two sessions of 3 hours). The recording access can be found in your confirmation email after registering and will be available to watch back for 2 months from registration.
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 exploring the overlap of philosophy and psychoanlaysis.
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