“Psyche on Campus” syllabus archive

The syllabi collected here were generously shared by their course-creators.  If you have a syllabus for an undergraduate course (or a graduate course that admits undergraduates) that you’d like to add to the archive, please email a copy to: cavitch@english.upenn.edu.  We’d love to add your course to this growing database!

A Comprehensive Introduction to Sigmund Freud’s Theories: The Origins of Psychoanalytic Thought
Professors W. Craig Tomlinson and Adele Tutter
Columbia University, fall 2022

Dreams of Interpretation: Literature and/as Psychoanalysis
Professor Elissa Marder
Emory University, fall 2020

Dreams of the New in Post-War France
Professor Fernanda Negrete
SUNY Buffalo, spring 2020

The Fantastic and the Uncanny in Literature: Ghosts, Spirits, and Machines
Professor Liliane Weissberg
University of Pennsylvania, fall 2022

Freud and His Legacies: Readings in the History of Psychoanalysis
Professor Elizabeth Lunbeck
Harvard University, fall 2022

Professor Vanessa Rumble
Boston College, spring 2021

Freud and the Literary Imagination
Professor Richard Grey
University of Washington, Winter 2016

Freud’s Objects
Professor Liliane Weissberg
University of Pennsylvania, spring 2021

Freud: The Invention of Psychoanalysis
Professor Liliane Weissberg
University of Pennsylvania, spring 2019

Hysteria as Discourse
Professor Emma Lieber
Eugene Lang College, The New School, spring 2023

Introduction to Lacanian Theory
Professor Ian Curtis
Kenyon College, spring 2022

Introduction to Psychoanalysis: History, Theory, Practice
Dr. Susan Adelman and Professor Max Cavitch
University of Pennsylvania, fall 2019

Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Literature and Film
Professor Jean-Michel Rabaté
University of Pennsylvania, spring 2019

Law and the Unconscious Mind [graduate course]
Professor Martha Grace Duncan
Emory University, fall 2021

Literature and Psychoanalysis
Professor Nathan Gorelick
Barnard College, spring 2024

Lives of the Death Drive [graduate seminar]
Professor Max Cavitch
University of Pennsylvania, fall 2021

Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Freud and the Interpretation of Culture
Professor Stephen P. Steinberg
University of Pennsylvania, fall 2021

Psychoanaliterature: Psychoanalysis, Literature and All That Lies in Between
Professor Yael Segalovitz
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, fall 2023

Psychoanalysis
Professor Carter J. Carter
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, fall 2022

Psychoanalysis and Anthropology
Dr. Lawrence Blum and Professor Greg Urban
University of Pennsylvania, fall 2020

Psychoanalysis and Anthropology
Dr. Lawrence Blum
University of Pennsylvania, fall 2022

Psychoanalytic and Anthropological Perspectives on Childhood
Dr. Lawrence Blum and Dr. Barbara Shapiro
University of Pennsylvania, spring 2020

Psychoanalysis and Law
Professor Adam Sitze
Amherst College, fall 2017

Psychoanalysis and Politics: History and Theory
Professor Dagmar Herzog
CUNY Graduate Center, fall 2020

Professor Eve Meltzer
NYU/Gallatin, spring 2020

Race and Psychoanalysis
Professor David Eng
University of Pennsylvania, spring 2021

Reading (with) Psychoanalysis
Dr. Nicholas Ray
University of Leeds, fall 2022

Retelling a Life: Psychoanalysis and Autobiography
Professor Max Cavitch and Dr. Mark Moore
University of Pennsylvania, fall 2021

Sex, Society, and Other Relations That Do Not Exist [graduate seminar]
Professor Anna Kornbluh
University of Illinois, Chicago, fall 2012

Social Work Practice and Trauma
Professor Jane Abrams
University of Pennsylvania, fall 2015

A User’s Guide to Freud
Professor Elizabeth A. Wilson
Emory University, spring 2023