As a "confession without absolution," and a "discourse without a mother" psychoanalysis for decades now has had a bad reputation. Labeled as a cult, attacked for its focus on childhood, and criticized for strengthening the foundations of patriarchy, its critical potential was often belittled, and its key terms simplified or misused. One of the main objectives of this class is to disenchant this philosophical school of thought and use its tool to unmask and talk through some of the deepest wounds of the 20th century. We will sit down the traumatized and frenzied modern and postmodern writing on the couch and investigate its fixations, obsessions, repulsions, and passions to learn more about the contemporary ideological wars, post-truths, perpetual inequalities, and escalating mental health crises, which are the markers of our civilization. Through the lens of writings by, among all, Freud, Jung, Ferenczi, Klein, Torok, Abraham, Lacan, Kristeva, Grosz, and Žižek this course will explore narratives from Central Europe — the playground of the 20th-century history and the witness of some of its most horrific atrocities.