Introduction                                                                                                                     (approx. 1 class)

PART I:  THE SEPARATE SELF
Immanuel Kant                                     "The Doctrine of Virtue” (1797)                           (approx. 3 classes)
(1724-1804)
                                                            Preface, Introduction (pp. 181-213)

                                                            Part I:  Duties to Oneself (pp. 214-242)

                                                            Part II:  Duties of Virtue to Others (pp. 243-280)

Sigmund Freud                                   Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1909)                 (approx. 6 classes)
(1856-1939)
                                                            "Fräulein Anna O. (Breuer)" (1893)

                                                          Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
                                                            (1905)

                                                            "Two Principles in Mental Functioning"
                                                            (1911), "A Note on the Unconscious in
                                                            Psychoanalysis" (1912), “On Narcissism"
                                                            (1914), "Instincts and their Vicissitudes"
                                                            (1915), “Repression” (1915)

                                                            "Mourning and Melancholia" (1917),
                                                            "Group Psychology and the Analysis
                                                            of the Ego” (1921, sections VII-XI),
                                                            "The Libido Theory" (1923)

                                                            "The Ego and the Id" (1923,
                                                            sections II-V),"The Passing of the
                                                            Oedipus Complex" (1924) "Neurosis
                                                            and Psychosis" (1924), "The Economic
                                                            Problem in Masochism" (1924)

PART II:  THE AUTHENTIC SELF
Ralph Waldo Emerson                          "Self-Reliance," “Friendship”                                   (approx. 2 classes)
(1803-1882)                                         (1841)

D.W. Winnicott                                    "The Capacity to be Alone” (1958)                         (approx. 3 classes)
(1896-1971)                                        "The Theory of the Parent-Infant
                                                            Relationship"(1960), "Ego Integration
                                                            in Child Development" (1962), "From
                                                            Dependence towards Independence in
                                                            the Development of the Individual"
                                                            (1963)

                                                            "Ego Distortion in Terms of True and
                                                            False Self" (1960), "Living Creatively"
                                                            (1970)

                                                            "The Capacity for Concern" (1963),
                                                            "Transitional Objects and Transi-
                                                            tional Phenomena:  A Study of the
                                                            First Not-Me Possession" (1951)

Midterm Examination                           (1 class)

PART III:  THE INTERDEPENDENT SELF
G.W.F. Hegel                                      "Self-Consciousness:  Lordship                                         (approx. 3 classes)
(1770-1831)                                        and Bondage; Stoicism, Scepticism,
                                                            and the Unhappy Consciousness (from
                                                            The Phenomenology of Spirit, 1807)

Marie Cardinal                                   The Words to Say It (1983)                                            (approx. 2 classes)
(1929-  )

Margaret Mahler                                  N. Gregory Hamilton                                                        (approx. 2 classes)
(1897-1985)                                      Self and Others: Object Relations
                                                          Theory in Practice (1988)

Salvador Minuchin                              Family Healing: Tales of Hope and (approx. 2 classes)
                                                          Renewal from Family Therapy (1993)

PART IV:  THE PERFORMATIVE SELF
Muriel Dimen                                       "Strange Hearts:  On the Paradoxical                                (approx. 1 class)
                                                            Liaison between Psychoanalysis
                                                            and Feminism" (1998)

Judith Butler                                       Gender Trouble:  Feminism and                                     (approx. 3 classes)
                                                          the Subversion of Identity (1990)
 

Nancy Chodorow                                "Heterosexuality as a Compromise                                     (approx. 1 class)
                                                            Formation" (1992)

Minnie Bruce Pratt                             S/HE (selections) (1995)                                                   (approx. 1 class)
 

COURSE TOPIC:  the self

COURSE GOALS:  increased understanding of the course topic; increased self-awareness

COURSE TEXTS:  The texts are available from the university bookstore unless otherwise noted:

PART I:
Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals (Cambridge)

Sigmund Freud, Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis (Norton)

--------, "Fräulein Anna O. (Breuer)" (1893)
(This reading will be on file for student use in the Department of Philosophy office and at the reserve desk in Getchell Library.)

--------,  Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Basic Books)

--------, General Psychological Theory (Collier Books)
(Includes all the Freud selections not listed here.)

--------, "Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego" (1921, sections VII-XI), "The Ego and the Id" (sections II-V,
1923),"The Passing of the Oedipus Complex" (1924)
(These three essays will be on file.)

Part II:
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," "Friendship" (1841)
(The essays will be on file.  For students who wish to do further reading of Emerson's essays, The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Harvard U. Press, Belknap) is available for purchase at the University Bookstore.)

D.W. Winnicott, The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment:  Studies in the Theory of Emotional Development (International Universities Press)
(Includes:  "The Capacity to Be Alone," "The Theory of the Parent-Infant Relationship," "Ego Integration in Child Development," "From Dependence towards Independence in the Develop~ment of the Individual," "Ego Distortion in Terms of True and False Self.")

(This book is available from the university bookstore.  The essays will be on file.)

"Living Creatively," "The Capacity for Concern," "Transi~tional Objects and Transitional Phenomena:  A Study of the First Not-Me Possession."
(Essays will be on file.)

Part III:
Selections G.W.F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit (Oxford University Press) ("Self-Consciousness:  The Truth of Self-Certainty:  Independence and dependence of self-consciousness:  Lordship and Bondage; Freedom of self-consciousness:  Stoicism, Scepticism, and the Unhappy Consciousness)
(The selections will be on file.  For students who wish to read more of Hegel's Phenomenology, it is available for purchase from the University bookstore.)

Marie Cardinal, The Words to Say It (Van Vactor and Goodheart)

N. Gregory Hamilton, Self and Others:  Object Relations Theory in Practice (Jason Aronson, Inc.)
(To understand Margaret Mahler's object relations theory, we will read and talk about this clinical textbook dealing primarily with Mahlerian object relations theory.)

Part IV
Muriel Dimen, “Strange Hearts:  On the Paradoxical Liaison between Psychoanalysis and Feminism.”
(The essay will be on file.)

Judith Butler, Gender Trouble:  Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge)

Nancy Chodorow, “Heterosexuality as a Compromise Formation.”
(The essay will be on file.)

Minnie Bruce Pratt, S/HE (selections)
(The selections will be on file.)

CAPSTONE REQUIREMENTS:  Every capstone course meets the following requirements:
1.  It builds upon the core curriculum, providing the opportunity for students to bring to bear knowledge gained in core courses
     and knowledge derived from major and elective courses.
2.  It is integrative, broadly focussed, multi-disciplinary, and, if relevant and feasible, cross-cultural.
3.  It focuses on ethical and substantive issues, problems and themes that affect the world community and broad cross-sections
     of humankind.
4.  It encourages or promotes critical and analytic thinking, reaching beyond traditional or orthodox approaches and
     perspectives; it challenges students to question and critically examine established assumptions and paradigms.
5.  It includes a rigorous writing component and also, whenever possible, a computational component.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS (UNDERGRADUATE):
Readings as assigned
Participation in class discussion
Class attendance
Two take-home written assignments
Two papers (approx. 8 pp.)
Midterm examination
Final examination (Thurs., May 10, 7:30-9:30am)

TAKE-HOME ASSIGNMENTS:  The format and dates for take-home written assignments will be announced.  The purpose of the assignments is to help students with their reading.

PAPERS:  The papers will be essays (not research papers).  They will be around eight pages long.  Due dates for papers will be announced.

You need use no books other than the course texts to write the papers.  In an essay, you state a thesis, explain it and argue for it.  The basic structure of an essay is:  an introduction in which you state your thesis, the body of the essay in which you explain and argue for your thesis, the conclusion in which you summarize or highlight what you have done in the essay.

Essays will be typed or word processed, double-spaced and in ten or twelve point type.  They will have a title and a title page.  The pages will be numbered.  There will be no extra spaces between paragraphs.  They will be in finished form and without errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation.  All quotations will be accompanied by a reference in parentheses.  The format for references will be explained in class.

Essays will be evaluated on the following basis:

1.  Do you have the parts mentioned above (introduction, body, conclusion)?
2.  Do you fulfill the functions mentioned above (state thesis, explain it, argue for it, summarize or highlight)?
3.  Is the thesis you are writing about an interesting and important one?
4.  Does your explanation of the thesis show that it is an interesting and important one?  Does your explanation make the basic
     concepts and terms in your essay clear to the reader?
5.  Are your arguments clear and convincing to the reader?
6.  Do you use specific examples from the text you are writing about to make your arguments stronger?  Do you use direct
     quotations from the text you are writing about to make your arguments stronger?
7.  Does your conclusion add something to the essay as a whole?
8.  Is the essay typed or word processed, double-spaced and in ten or twelve point type?  Does it include a title and a title
     page?  Are the pages numbered?  Does the essay have no extra space between paragraphs?  Is it in finished form and
     without errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation?  Are all quotations accompanied by a reference in parentheses?

EXAMINATIONS:  The examinations will have two sections, an informational section and an essay section, each worth 50 points.  The mid-term examination will be held after completion of our discussion of D.W. Winnicott (probably early March).  The final examination will be Thursday, May 10, from 7:30 to 9:30am.

EVALUATION:  Grades will be based on the take-home assignments, papers and examinations, weighted equally (1/3 each).  Excellent class participation may raise your grade somewhat over the mathematical average, at the discretion of the instructor.

Late papers and take-home assignments will lose a letter grade for each class session they are late.  There are no make-up examinations except in the case of illness or emergency.

The grading scale is:  94-100, A; 90-93 A-; 87-89 B+; 84-86 B; 80-83 B-; 77-79 C+; 74-76 C; 70-73 C-; 67-69 D+; 64-66 D; 60-63 D-; below 60, F.

It is the instructor's policy that cheating, plagiarism or submission of written work for this course which was submitted in another course merits a course grade of 'F'.

CLASS FORMAT:  The class will be a combination of lecture and discussion.  The discussion will be, generally, guided discussion rather than general discussion or general debate.

Lectures and discussions will refer to course texts.  Students will need to bring the relevant course texts to class if they are to benefit from lectures and discussions.

ATTENDANCE:  Much of the important work in this course goes on in class.  Students are expected to be in attendance except in cases of illness or emergency.  Students are expected not to make appointments that conflict with class sessions.

STUDYING:  Many students will find that they do better work in this course if they study together with other students.

GRADUATE STUDENTS:
This course is a 400-level undergraduate course offered also for graduate-level credit.  To receive graduate-level credit, students will fulfill some requirements that are the same as the requirements for undergraduate students, namely:  readings as assigned, participation in class discussion, class attendance, two take-home written assignments, two papers, two examinations.

Graduate students will also fulfill some requirements that are different than the requirements for undergraduate students, namely:  their papers will be longer (15 pp.); their papers will derive from some additional reading on a topic of mutual interest to the student and the instructor to be selected in consultation with the instructor; graduate students will meet with the instructor to discuss the additional readings and the papers before beginning work on the papers.

Graduate students will meet the same evaluation criteria as undergraduate students and some additional criteria, namely:  Do the papers evidently derive from additional reading?  Does the student’s writing reflect broad familiarity with philosophic concepts and modes of argumentation?  Does the student’s writing reflect some understanding of the history of philosophic treatment of the concepts discussed?  Is the student able to sustain multifaceted argument and analysis?

Graduate students will achieve deeper understanding of the course material as a result of their additional reading and of their discussions with the instructor.  Graduate students will meet with the instructor towards the beginning of the semester to discuss and additional readings and meetings with the instructor at a time of mutual convenience.

DISABILITY POLICY:  The Department of Philosophy is committed to equal opportunity in education for all students, including those with documented physical or learning disabilities.  According to University policy, a student with a documented disability is required to contact his or her instructors during the first week of each semester to discuss accommodations appropriate to ensure equity in grading, classroom experiences and out-of-class assignments.  Each instructor will meet with the student and Student Services Center staff members to formulate a written plan for appropriate accommodations, if they are required.

My office hours are Tuesdays, 2:00 - 4:00pm  (108D Cain Hall), or by appointment.  Please feel free to come by to discuss the course topics or your progress in the course.  I am happy to meet with you at some other time if it is more convenient.  If you wish to make an appointment to see me at some other time, call:  784-6742, -6846.

If you try to get in touch with me and cannot, leave a note with your phone number so that I can call you.