This course provides an introduction to fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis, such as the unconscious, repetition automatism, transference and drives, as proposed by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) and further elaborated by Jacques Lacan (1901-1981). This course is composed of selected classic case histories by Freud (and one by J. Breuer) and includes methods of interpretation employed by Lacan. Topics for analysis include neurotic disorders (hysteria and obsession), psychopathology of everyday life, jokes, dreams and other formations of the unconscious. Finally, the course takes up the order of language (along with the death drive) as what constitutes the human.