Analyzing Freud

This coming autumn, The Field Museum will be hosting a major show,the widely debated
Freud exhibition, which had its contested origins at the Library of Congress and will
have its final presentation here in Chicago. The Humanities Lab at the University of
Illinois at Chicago is proud to announce the beginning of its commitment to public
accessibility for the humanities by organizing a for-credit course to be held at
the Field Museum in conjunction with this exhibition.

The course, entitled Analyzing Freud (LAS 494), is aimed at advanced undergraduates
and graduate students. Meeting Tuesday evenings for three hours, the course will be a general
introduction to the history and theories of human psychology from the standpoint of psychoanalysis.

Notable specialists from fields as diverse as anthropology, neuroanatomy, psychiatry,
and psychology will present lectures on psychoanalysis, while a sub-set of classes will
focus on the cultural implications of psychoanalysis for the study of film as well as for
the history of the cinema. A discussion section in which selected readings will be analyzed
in a small group format will accompany each session.

This course will give students two extraordinary chances. They will be able to hear and discuss
the work of the leading specialists in the field as well as to meet with students from
throughout Chicago, who share their interests (or their skepticism).

The first organizing session of the course will take place at the Field Museum
on TUESDAY September 25, 2001. UIC students may register for LAS 494 or Psychology 494
through the UIC Express or Student Access System. Students can also enroll through
the reciprocal arrangements of CIC or other groups with the School of Continuing
Education at UIC by contacting: Nancy Downs ndowns@uic.edu

The general public may also drop-in on individual lectures or may attend the whole series.
For information on how to register for courses for non-degree purposes,
visit the Field Museum website at http://www.fmnh.org/education/public_programs.htm
or call The Field Museum Education Department at (312) 665-7400.

Partial support for this lecture series was generously provided by the
Austrian Cultural Institute, New York, http://www.austriaculture.net/