2023
Thematic Seminar 4
Name: Thematic Seminar 4
Code: FIL12631D
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Philosophy
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Presentation
Seminar 4 aims to raise awareness of the state of the art in a contemporary philosophical area, in order to foster students' ability to contextualize their problems in the context of these debates.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
1) Knowledge of the state of the art in a philosophical area to which belong PhD projects.
2) Analysis of particular issues in a relevant area of philosophical knowledge at present
3) Integration of students in the research lines of the course teachers
4) Developing students the ability to contextualize the problem investigating the horizon of
contemporary philosophical debates
5) To foster in students the practice of a methodologically consistent approach to themes of their
nascent projects
6) Practice of academic work, formally correct, conceptually precise and well structured.
2) Analysis of particular issues in a relevant area of philosophical knowledge at present
3) Integration of students in the research lines of the course teachers
4) Developing students the ability to contextualize the problem investigating the horizon of
contemporary philosophical debates
5) To foster in students the practice of a methodologically consistent approach to themes of their
nascent projects
6) Practice of academic work, formally correct, conceptually precise and well structured.
Contents
Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
1. Philosophy and psychoanalysis
a. Epistemological considerations about psychoanalysis
b. Overcoming the epistemological: Psychoanalysis and practical philosophy
2. The practical vocation of Philosophy
a. Epimeleia: care of themselves in the classical era
b.The pursuit of "good life" and the Aristotelian ethics
c. Kant and attention to the 'head diseases'
d. The idea of philosophy as therapy in sec. XX
e. Foucault's perspective
3. The psychoanalysis as anthropological hermeneutics
a.The metapsychology of Freud
b. The question of the relationship and the formation of the self (Klein, Bion)
c. The ripening process (Winnicott)
d. The unconscious as a language (Lacan)
4. Approach to some philosophical and psychoanalytic issues
a. Cross conceptual tools
b. Dreams: the light of Freud, Bion, Kant
c. From the substantial self to the self-function
d. Projective identification and design world
e. The experience of time (Freud, Green, Kant, Heidegger)
1. Philosophy and psychoanalysis
a. Epistemological considerations about psychoanalysis
b. Overcoming the epistemological: Psychoanalysis and practical philosophy
2. The practical vocation of Philosophy
a. Epimeleia: care of themselves in the classical era
b.The pursuit of "good life" and the Aristotelian ethics
c. Kant and attention to the 'head diseases'
d. The idea of philosophy as therapy in sec. XX
e. Foucault's perspective
3. The psychoanalysis as anthropological hermeneutics
a.The metapsychology of Freud
b. The question of the relationship and the formation of the self (Klein, Bion)
c. The ripening process (Winnicott)
d. The unconscious as a language (Lacan)
4. Approach to some philosophical and psychoanalytic issues
a. Cross conceptual tools
b. Dreams: the light of Freud, Bion, Kant
c. From the substantial self to the self-function
d. Projective identification and design world
e. The experience of time (Freud, Green, Kant, Heidegger)
Teaching Methods
The seminar operates in attendance and may draw up, in special cases, participation by Skype. The
lecionação include exposure, working texts and debate. Eventually, they can be merged with sessions
conducted by guest lecturers or student participation in scientific meetings, which take place on topics /
related fields
The evaluation will be based on:
1) attendance and active participation (10%);
2) an oral presentation or
writing a short essay or commentary on the theme treated in the seminar or a report, 2-3 p. (15%);
3) the formal presentation of a final written test on communication format in a colloquium (75%).
lecionação include exposure, working texts and debate. Eventually, they can be merged with sessions
conducted by guest lecturers or student participation in scientific meetings, which take place on topics /
related fields
The evaluation will be based on:
1) attendance and active participation (10%);
2) an oral presentation or
writing a short essay or commentary on the theme treated in the seminar or a report, 2-3 p. (15%);
3) the formal presentation of a final written test on communication format in a colloquium (75%).
Teaching Staff
