I began teaching in the College in 1999 as a UChicago-trained sociocultural anthropologist with research interests in consumerism, class, national identity and gender in the Arab Middle East. After teaching Freud for several years in Self, Culture, and Society, I felt increasingly drawn to the study of psychoanalysis, which provided an approach to questions of human meaning-making that was distinct from my anthropological training yet in many ways complementary to it. It is not an exaggeration to say that teaching in the Core changed the trajectory of my life, as it was the impetus for my training as a psychoanalyst. Beyond co-chairing Self, Culture, and Society, I have offered courses in the Big Problems program investigating some of the ways psychoanalytic approaches are employed across an array of disciplines and in the pre-College program interrogating the meaning of human community from both canonical and contemporary viewpoints.