Loyola University Maryland

Faculty & Staff

Richard P. Boothby
Professor of Philosophy
Office: Humanities Center 050D
410-617-2890
boothby@loyola.edu

Education and Experience

  • B.A., Philosophy, Yale University, 1977
  • Ed.M., Psychology, Harvard University, 1979
  • Ph.D., Philosophy, Boston University, 1987

Areas of Specialization

  • Psychoanalysis and Philosophical Psychology
  • Phenomenology and Existentialism
  • Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Recent Courses Taught

  • PL201 Foundations of Philosophy     
  • PL210 Politics and Society     
  • PL230 Humanity and Divinity
  • PL327 Philosophy of Language     
  • PL338 Psychoanalysis & Philosophy
  • PL380 Marx and Marxism     
  • PL385 The Thought of Heidegger    
  • PL389 Nietzsche        
  • HN220 Honors: The Ancient World   

Selected Publications

  • Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud.  New York: Routledge, 1991.  266 pages.
  • "How We Love To Hate Him: Clinton as Symptom."  Clinical Studies: An International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 4, No. 2 (1999)  pp. 107-116.
  • Freud As Philosopher: Metapsychology After Lacan.  New York: Routledge, 2001.  330 pages.
  • Sex On The Couch: What Freud Still Has to Teach Us About Sex and Gender.  New York: Routledge, 2005.  276 pages.
  • "Introduction: International Conference in Commemoration of Emmanuel Levinas," Athena: Filosofijos Studijos  2006  No. 2.  pp. 11-15.

Contact Us

  • For more information, or to ask questions, about the philosophy department, please contact Richard P. Boothby at boothby@loyola.edu or 410-617-2890.