MSc in Theoretical Psychoanalytic Studies

Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Theory:
Freud Reading Seminars Reading List
Spring Term 2009
(This Unit runs throughout the year)

Aim: the unit aims to acquaint the student with the basic concepts of psychoanalysis developed by Freud, and with the changes in his thinking and the reasons for these.

Objective: students should read and gain familiarity with the major theoretical and clinical papers of Sigmund Freud, and be able to show critical awareness of the major models of the mind which he put forward, and of the shifts in his formulations through his working life.

Teaching staff: Prof Rosine Jozef Perelberg, PhD (Coordinator), Mrs Rosemary Davies

INSTINCT THEORY AND THE METAPSYCHOLOGICAL PAPERS

Seminar 10 (continues on from autumn term)
Mrs Rosemary Davies

Friday 16th January 12.30 – 2.00pm

(1909) Notes Upon A Case Of Obsessional Neurosis (pp.153-251)

Seminar 11
Mrs Rosemary Davies

Friday 23rd January 12.30-2.00pm

(1915) Instincts and their vicissitudes S.E. 14 (pp. 109-140) Folder

Seminar 12
Mrs Rosemary Davies

Friday 30th January 12.30 - 2.00pm

(1915) On narcissism: an introduction S.E. 14 Folder

Seminar 13

Prof Rosine Perelberg

Saturday 31 st January 9.30 – 11.00am

1918 [1914] From the history of an infantile neurosis S.E. 17 (pp. 3-123) Folder

Seminar 14
Prof Rosine Perelberg

Saturday 31st January 11.15-12.45am

Continues from seminar 13 - 1918 [1914] From the history of an infantile neurosis S.E. 17 (pp. 3-123) Folder

Seminar 15
Prof Rosine Perelberg

Saturday 14th February 9.30-11.00am

(1915) Repression S.E. 14 (pp.141-158) Folder

Seminar 16
Prof Rosine Perelberg

Saturday 28th February 9.30-11.00am

(1915) The Unconscious S.E. 14 (pp.161-215) Book available in office  

Seminar 17

Prof Rosine Perelberg

Saturday 7th March 9.30-11.00am

(1917) Mourning and melancholia. S.E.14 Folder (1920)

Seminar 18

Prof Rosine Perelberg

Saturday 14 th March 9.30-11.00am

Beyond the Pleasure Principle, S.E.18 Book available in office

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