“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!
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
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
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
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
Professor Eve Meltzer
NYU/Gallatin, spring 2020
Race and Psychoanalysis
Professor David Eng
University of Pennsylvania, spring 2021
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