Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this module students should be able to:1. Demonstrate an understanding of psychoanalysis as a discourse distinct from, but relevant to, philosophical and scientific discourses. 2. Demonstrate an understanding of the emergence of psychoanalysis as a treatment in the context of the history of mental illness 3. Evaluate key philosophical concepts which were taken up in Jacques Lacan's elaboration of psychoanalytical theory 4. Describe the unconscious determinants at work within the family structure as articulated in the works of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan 5. Demonstrate knowledge of the history of psychoanalysis in Ireland and of the relation between the law and mental disorder.