Focusing on our experiences of passion, acquisitiveness, success, and their attendant emotions of happiness, despair, guilt, hope, shame, regret and anger, this course examines the role which desire and discontent play in motivating human behaviour and shaping personality. In so doing, students undertake a critical reading of texts in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and psychology, including in their analysis thinkers such as Plato, Epicurus, Hegel, Freud, and Foucault.
This interdisciplinary course examines the insights of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and psychology in the attempt to understand the human cycle of desire and discontent. Students who have taken PHIL 406 Desire and Discontent cannot take this course.
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