As a major force in contemporary thought, deconstruction has been strongly influenced by psychoanalysis. In turn, as part of its critique of metaphysics, deconstruction has had much to say about the uncritical presuppositions of psychoanalysis. The aim of this course is to study deconstruction and psychoanalysis from both points of view and then to envision how each theory transforms the other. After introducing the basic issues via comparative readings from Nietzsche, Freud, and Heidegger, readings focus on Derrida's deconstructive texts.