COM 571/CHV 571
Law, Psychoanalysis, and Ideas of Human Agency
Princeton University, Spring 2011
Kerstetter Room, 301 Marx Hall, Wednesdays at 4:30
SESSION 1 (Feb. 2): Punishment
Peter Brooks with Martin Stone (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law)
The Queen v. Dudley and Stephens
Booth v. Maryland, 482 U.S. 496 (1987)
Payne v. Tennessee, 501 U.S. 808 (1991)
H.L.A. Hart, "Legal Responsibility and Excuses" from Punishment and Responsibility: Essays in the Philosophy of Law
S. Freud, "Criminals from a Sense of Guilt" (excerpt from "Some Character-Types Met with in Psychoanalytic Work") Vol. XIV,
Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud *
* for all Freud texts please click on the link and then go to the indicated volume in the Standard Edition and consult
Table of Contents to find the assigned material. If you are having trouble accessing the material please contact hjewett@princeton.edu
SESSION 2 (Feb. 9): Guilty Minds
Guest Speaker: Bruce Hay (Harvard Law School)
California v. Berry, 556 P.2d 777 (Ca. 1976)
Michigan v. Morrin, 187 N.W.2d 434 (Mich. Ct. App. 1971)
Watson v. U.S., 501 A.2d 791 (D.C. App. 1985)
Morissette v. U.S., 342 U.S. 246 (1952)
Criminal Practice Manual (excerpt)
Clark v. Arizona, 548 U.S. 735 (2006)
Yates v. Texas, 171 S.w.3d 215 (Tex. App.-Houston [1st Dist.] 2005)
S. Freud, "The Dissection of the Psychical Personality" from New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis in Vol. XXII
Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
SESSION 3 (Feb. 16): What is an agent?
Martin Stone
I.
Vaughan v. Menlove
Cordas v. Peerless
Breunig v. American Family Insurance
Holmes, The Common Law (selection)
Palsgraf v. L.I.R.R.
Arthur Ripstein, "Punishment and the Tort/Crime Distinction"
II.
Hans Loewald, "Man as Moral Agent"
P.F. Strawson, "Freedom and Resentment (selection)
Christine Korsgaard, "Self-Constitution in Plato and Kant" (selection)
David Foster Wallace, "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men" (selection)
Holloway v. U.S., 526 U.S. 1 (1999)
SESSION 4 (Feb. 23): Criminal Suspects
Peter Brooks
Culombe v. Connecticut, 367 U.S. 568 (1961) (excerpt)
Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966)
Schmerber v. California, 384 U.S. 757 (1966)
Meyerhold letter to Molotov, dated Jan. 13, 1940 (excerpt)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, excerpt from Confessions (the stolen ribbon)
Paul deMan, "Excuses (Confessions)" from Allegories of Reading
SESSION 5 (March 2): Confessions, reliable and unreliable
Guest Speaker: Jeannie Suk (Harvard Law School)
Oregon v. Elstad, 470 U.S. 298 (1985)
Chavez v. Martinez, 538 U.S. 760 (2003)
U.S. v. Patane, 542 U.S. 630 (2004)
Missouri v. Seibert, 542 U.S. 600 (2004)
A. Camus, The Fall
SESSION 6 (March 9): Law's Repressions
Guest Speaker: Amy M. Adler (New York University School of Law)
Barnes v. Glen Theatre, 501 U.S. 560 (1991)
City of Erie v. Pap's, 529 U.S. 277 (2000)
Safford v. Redding, 557 U.S. __ (2008)
Redrup v. New York, 386 U.S. 767 (1967)
U.S. v. Dost, 636 F. Supp. 828 (S.D. Cal. 1986)
Miller v. Mitchell, 598 F.3d 139 (3d Cir 2010)
S. Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality in Vol. VII
Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
SESSION 7 (March 23): Consent, legal and psychological
Guest Speaker: Susan Schmeiser (University of Connecticut School of Law)
Gilmore v. Utah, 429 U.S. 1012 (1976)
Dennis v. Budge, 378 F.3d 889 (9th Cir. 2004)
State v. Ross, 273 Conn. 684 (Conn. 2005)
People v. Samuels, 250 Cal. App. 2d 501 (Cal. App. 1967)
Regina v. Brown (H.L.(E.)), 1 A.C. 212 (1994)
S. Freud, "Family Romances" in Vol. IX
Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
SESSION 8 (March 30): Legal & Psychoanalytical Linguistics
Guest Speakers: Juliet Mitchell (University of Cambridge) and Elisabeth Ladenson (Columbia University)
in conversation with Peter Brooks and Martin Stone
Michael H. et al. v. Gerald D., 491 U.S. 110 (1989)
J. Lacan, "The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis" (excerpt)
Emile Benveniste, "Subjectivity in Language" in Problems in General Linguistics
S. Freud, "The Return of Totemism in Childhood " in Totem and Taboo, Vol XIII
Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
SESSION 9 (April 6): Work of the Analyst/of the Advocate
Guest Speaker: Carol Gilligan (New York University School of Law)
F. Kafka, In The Penal Colony
C. Gilligan, "Free Association and The Grand Inquisitor: A Psychoanalytic Drama" from Joining the Resistance (forthcoming)
S. Freud, Case History: Fraulein Elisabeth von R. in Studies on Hysteria, Vol II
Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
Brown v. Louisiana, 383 U.S. 131 (1966)
Aug. 1, 2002 Memo from Jay Bybee, DOJ, to John Rizzo, CIA
SESSION 10 (April 13): Psychoanalysis in the Courtroom
Guest Speaker: Anne Dailey (University of Connecticut Law School)
Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California, 17 Cal. 3d 425 (Ca. 1976)
In Re T.K., 105 Conn. App. 502 (Ct. 2007)
Tyson v. Tyson, 107 Wash.2d 72 (Wash. 1986)
Goldstein et al., Beyond the Best Interests of the Child (excerpts)
S. Freud, "Constructions in Analysis" in Vol. XXIII Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
SESSION 11 (April 20): Remembering, Repeating, Working Through
Guest Speaker: Judith Butler (University of California - Berkeley)
Shahzade v. Gregory, 923 F. Supp. 286 (D. Mass. 1996)
State v. Hungerford, 697 A.2d 916 (N.H. 1997)
Trear v. Sills, 69 Cal. App. 4th 1341 (Cal. App. 1999)
S. Freud, "Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through" in Vol. XII;
"Analysis Terminable and Interminable" in Vol. XXIII;
Moses and Monotheism in Vol. XXIII and "The 'Uncanny'" in Vol. XVII
Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
SESSION 12 (April 27): Conclusions
Janet Malcolm, Iphigenia in Forest Hills (2011) (book available at Labyrinth Books or your local bookstore)
S. Freud, "Psychoanalysis and the Establishment of the Facts in Legal Proceedings" in Vol. IX
Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud