Psychoanalysis is a body of ideas developed by Austrian Physician Sigmund Freud and his followers, which is devoted to the study of human psychological functioning and behavior. Psychoanalysis has three applications: a method of investigation of the mind; a systematized set of theories about human behavior; a method of treatment of psychological or emotional illness. Under the broad umbrella of psychoanalysis there are at least twenty-two different theoretical orientations regarding …

This meetup consists of different groups of people reading certain material to different degrees of depth and intensity. Books we've read in the past include Descartes' 'Meditations', Hume's 'Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding', Kant's '1st Critique', Kant's 'Prolegomena', Heidegger's 'Being and Time', Husserl's 'Logical Investigations', Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit', Marx's 'Capital', and many others. From time to time new groups are formed and remain open for awhile to newcomers. If yo …