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Department of Philautology

The science beneath psychology — identity as the underlying principle that founds the psyche.

Philautology is the (re)discovery of Dr Cyrille-O Al-Chidieu: the psyche is what is seen — thoughts, feelings, perceptions entering awareness — while identity is what sees. Identity is the underlying principle to which the psyche is enslaved, and by far: everything that reaches the psyche is determined by the identity staring at the thoughts, which the psyche itself can never perceive, since it is identity doing the perceiving.

As God comes after creation yet founds creation, philautology comes after psychology yet founds it. It is the underlying science — what psychology does not say about us. The department’s first-cycle certificate trains the first generation of philautologists: readers of the masters (Freud, Jung, Pavlov, Skinner, Milgram) through the founding lens, investigators of psychiatry’s record, practitioners of philautiatry, and architects of a society adapted to autism.

Direction

Directed by Dr Cyrille-O Al-Chidieu, Φ.D. — Rector of the university and the department’s sole tenured professor.

First-cycle certificate in Philautology

$34,000 USD

Courses sit behind the university paywall and are unlocked by the rector for enrolled students. One full-tuition bursary is awarded per cycle — see Admissions.

Curriculum

Courses of the department

Philautology 0 · 7 sessions

Philautology 0 — The (Re)discovery

The founding course: psyche versus identity, and why philautology is the God of psychology — it comes after creation but founds creation.

  1. The rediscoveryWhat philautology is, how it was (re)discovered, and why psychology needed a founding science beneath it.
  2. The psyche: what is seenThoughts, feelings, and perceptions as appearances entering awareness — the seen, never the seer.
  3. Identity: what seesThe underlying principle the psyche cannot perceive, precisely because it is identity doing the perceiving.
  4. Identity founds psycheEverything reaching the psyche is determined by the identity staring at the thoughts; the psyche is enslaved to identity, and by far.
  5. The God of psychologyAs God comes after creation yet founds creation, philautology comes after psychology yet founds it: the underlying science, what psychology does not say about us.
  6. Self-love as the shape of identityThe healthy identity and the cure of the self-hating formation — the master key of the whole curriculum.
  7. Reading a case through philautologyPracticum: taking an ordinary psychological case and re-reading it from identity down to psyche.

Assessment: Identity-map essay with oral defense in seminar.

Psychology №A · 8 sessions

Psychology №A — The Masters, Reread

Freud, Jung, Pavlov, Skinner, and Milgram — read through philautology and philautsophy, from the founding science down.

  1. Freud I: the unconscious as misperceived identitySlips, dreams, and symptoms as identity speaking past the psyche that cannot see it.
  2. Freud II: repression rereadRepression as identity refusing to let the psyche see — the seer editing the seen.
  3. Jung I: archetypes as masks of identityArchetypes and the collective unconscious measured against the one underlying seer.
  4. Jung II: individuation versus self-loveBecoming whole without becoming self-hating: where Jung stops and philautology begins.
  5. Pavlov: conditioning trains the psycheThe conditioned reflex belongs to the seen; identity remains untouched — why the dog salivates but is not explained.
  6. Skinner: the science of the seenBehaviorism studies the seen while denying the seer; the black box is the identity.
  7. Milgram: the abdication of the seerObedience as identity outsourcing its seeing to authority — what happens when the seer abdicates.
  8. Synthesis: five masters, one founding scienceWhat each master glimpsed of identity without naming it, and what only philautology can say.

Assessment: Comparative essay on two masters reread through identity.

Psychiatry №A · 8 sessions

Psychiatry №A — The Truth About Psychiatry

The record of psychiatry examined without deference: the guild, the labels, coercion, and the patient’s own testimony.

  1. A short history of psychiatryFrom the asylum to the prescription pad: what changed and what did not.
  2. Diagnosis as labelingWho benefits from the label — the labeled or the labeler.
  3. The guild and its incentivesA self-interested establishment cannot be expected to conclude that less of itself is the answer.
  4. CoercionHospitalization, forced treatment, and the patient’s experience of the ward.
  5. PharmaceuticalsWhat the drugs do, what they do not do, and who decided they were the answer.
  6. TestimoniesPatients in their own words: the record the guild does not cite.
  7. What a science of the mind would requireThe philautological standard psychiatry fails to meet.
  8. The open letterFinal examination: the cohort co-authors and signs an open letter denouncing widespread malpractice and torture by psychiatrists. Signing is required to pass.

Assessment: Final examination: the cohort collectively writes and signs, with their names, an open letter denouncing widespread malpractice and torture by psychiatrists. Students who do not sign fail the course.

Philautiatry 0 · 6 sessions

Philautiatry 0 — The Successors

How philautiatrists are meant to replace psychiatrists: no pharmaceuticals — only words can cure a mind.

  1. Why replacement, not reformThe case for succeeding psychiatry rather than repairing it.
  2. The philautiatrist’s officeWords as the instrument; the consulting room redesigned around speech.
  3. Only words can cure a mindThe talking cure founded on identity: addressing the seer, not sedating the seen.
  4. No pharmaceuticalsThe philautiatric stance on drugs and why the successor needs none of them.
  5. Listening as reshapingHow the practitioner speaks to identity and reshapes it toward self-love.
  6. Ethics of the wordThe responsibilities of the one who wields the cure — power, restraint, and truthfulness.

Assessment: Supervised practicum dialogue and case study.

Philautism · 6 sessions

Philautism — A Society for Autism

Autism understood from the inside, and the redesign of society around it: how neurotypicals should interpret and behave around autistic people.

  1. Autism from the insideThe autistic experience in its own terms, before interpretation.
  2. The neurotypical interpretation errorHow society systematically misreads autism — and what the misreading costs.
  3. How neurotypicals should interpretA philautological guide to reading autistic behavior without distortion.
  4. How neurotypicals should behaveConduct around autistic people: what to do, what to stop doing, and why.
  5. Redesigning institutionsSchool, work, and public space rebuilt for autistic flourishing.
  6. Philautism as policyAdapting society to autism — never autism to society.

Assessment: Accessibility redesign proposal for a real institution.

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