Existential Psychoanalytic
Institute & Society
2021-2022 Seminar Curriculum
*There may be small modifications in the reading depending upon
the needs of the EPIS community.
*Default is Mountain Time. Please adjust your
calendar depending upon your time zone.
Session 1:
September 10 & September 11 (2021)
FRIDAY:
Critical Psychoanalytic-Existential Analysis
(Friday, 4-6 p.m. MT)
Kristeva
Powers of Horror, Columbia University, 1982
Transcendental/Existential Phenomenology
(Friday, 6-8 p.m. MT)
Beauvoir
The Ethics of Ambiguity, Open Road Media, 2018
SATURDAY
Psychoanalysis & Philosophy:
(Saturday, 10 a.m.-Noon)
Zizek
The Sublime Object of Ideology, Verso, 2009
Critical Theory/Post-Structuralism
(Saturday, Noon – 2 p.m.)
Foucault
Mental Illness and Psychology, Foreword and Part 1, University of California Press, 1987
Session 2:
December 3 & December 4 (2021)
FRIDAY
Critical Psychoanalytic-Existential Analysis
(Friday, 4-6 p.m. MT)
Kristeva
Powers of Horror, Columbia University, 1982
Transcendental/Existential Phenomenology
(Friday, 6-8 p.m. MT)
Beauvoir
Ethics of Ambiguity, Open Road Media, 2018
SATURDAY
Psychoanalysis & Philosophy:
(Saturday, 10 a.m.-Noon)
Zizek
The Sublime Object of Ideology Verso, 2009
Critical Theory
Foucault
Mental Illness and Psychology, Part 2, University of California Press, 1987
Session 3:
March 5 & 6 (2022)
FRIDAY
Critical Psychoanalytic-Existential Analysis
(Friday, 4-6 p.m. MT)
Kristeva
Hatred and Forgiveness, Columbia, 2012
Transcendental/Existential Phenomenology
(Friday, 6-8 p.m. MT)
Jean Wahl
Transcendence and the Concrete, Fordham, 2017
SATURDAY
Psychoanalysis & Philosophy:
(Saturday, 10 a.m.-Noon)
Zizek
The Sublime Object of Ideology, Verso, 2009
Critical Theory
(Saturday, 10-2 p.m., MT)
Foucault
Madness and Civilization, Vintage, 1988
Session 4
June 4 and June 5 (2022)
FRIDAY
Critical Psychoanalytic-Existential Analysis
(Friday, 4-6 p.m. MT)
Kristeva
Hatred & Forgiveness, Columbia, 2012
Transcendental/Existential Phenomenology
(Friday, 6-8 p.m. MT)
Wahl
Transcendence and the Concrete, Fordham, 2017
SATURDAY
Psychoanalysis & Philosophy:
(Saturday, 10 a.m.-Noon)
Zizek
The Sublime Object of Ideology, Verso, 2009
Foucault
Madness and Civilization, Vintage, 1988