Rough brain dump of things that I am interested in or want to learn more about (WIP).

Connections to various parts of philosophy:

• Hermeneutics:

  • Interpretation in psychoanalysis.

  • Psychoanalysis as a human science.

  • Other related "hermeneutics of suspicion": Freudo-Marxism.

• Phenomenology:

  • (un)conscious experience

  • Existentialism's influence on therapy.

• Ethics:

  • Psychoanalysts' thoughts on how we ought live.

• History of Philosophy:

  • Historical pre-cursors to psychoanalysis and related concepts, e.g. the unconscious.

• Philosophical criticisms of the psychoanalytic project.

Philosophers, and philosophically-oriented psychoanalysts, of interest to me:

• Ricoeur, Marcuse, Rieff, Lear, others. Lots missed here (primarily approaching it via a hermeneutic angle).

Other topics:

• The idea of a philosophical psychopathology, in the sense of the ways in which philosophical thought can go wrong? Similar to Hume (see Livingston's Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium: Hume's Pathology of Philosophy), David Stove's "nosology of thought," Neven Sesardic's When Reason Goes on Holiday. Haven't fully formed my thoughts on this yet.

• Diagnostic reasoning. As both a scientific practice and oft-used metaphor in philosophy.

For the "royal road," see the Dreams and Dream Interpretation list.