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University Core Hosting Talk and Discussion: What Happened to Psychoanalysis?

10/17/2022

The directors of the University Core curriculum’s Pathways Program invite SLU faculty, instructors, and community members to a presentation by professor Samuel Moyn, a Yale University Professor of Law, History, and Human Rights. He will be presenting his recently published Norton Critical Edition of Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents (2021). 

His talk “What Happened to Psychoanalysis?” will take place on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022, at 4 p.m. in Busch Student Center room 253 and will use "Civilization and its Discontents" as an entry point to considering the history and current state of psychoanalysis, including the field's potential implications for emancipatory politics.

Ruth Evans, Ph.D., Dorothy McBride Orthwein Professor of English at SLU, and Sundeep Jayaprabhu, M.D., a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and instructor in the department of psychiatry’s residency program, will be respondents.

This talk is part of an initiative to coordinate collaborative faculty conversations focused on building curricular pathways rooted in our new Core’s “Equity and Global Identities” attributes. 
 
In addition to Moyn’s talk, a group of SLU faculty will be discussing how to teach with a “transformative text.” Faculty involved in the seminars will work at adapting the “transformative text” model to SLU’s curriculum in ways that focus all students’ attention on issues of diversity, global interdependence, and structural inequity by anchoring our Humanities pathways in the Core’s three “Equity and Global Identities” attribute areas: Identities in Context, Global Interdependence, and Dignity, Ethics and a Just Society.
 
For faculty interested in the Faculty seminars, please contact the grant-funded Pathway Directors Harold Braswell, Ph.D., Healthcare Ethics; and Pascale Perraudin, Ph.D., Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
 
This event is part of a Teagle Foundation/National Endowment for the Humanities ‘Cornerstone Learning for Living” planning grant to build pathways through our new University Core curriculum. These pathways will be oriented around “transformative texts:” books — selected by SLU Faculty — that expand individual consciousness and organize knowledge in ways that challenge, in creative ways, existing division between forms of knowledge and inquiry in the humanities and the social, biological and applied sciences.  

The texts will be used to create pathways throughout our core curriculum that are specifically oriented toward the goal of bringing STEM students into contact with the rich tradition of humanistic inquiry.