In this seminar we will look at what constitutes an analytic setting, both in terms of externals and in terms of the analyst's frame of mind. We will also look at Freud's main papers on technique, and think about how much they influence current psychoanalytic technique. As his papers on technique are all very brief, I have suggested several: other optional ones are listed under further reading.

Essential Reading :

• Recommendations to Physicians Practising Psycho-Analysis. S.E., 12. Folder/Book available in office

• On Beginning the Treatment. (Further Recommendations on the Technique of Psycho-Analysis). S.E., 12. Folder/Book available in office

• Remembering, Repeating and Working Through. (Further Recommendations on the Technique of Psycho-Analysis II). S.E., 12. Folder/Book available in office

• Observations on Transference-Love. (Further Recommendations on the Technique of Psycho-Analysis III.) S.E., 12. Folder/Book available in office

• An Outline of Psycho-Analysis . S.E., 23, Chapter 6. The Technique of Psycho-Analysis. Folder/Book available in office

Further reading

• The Handling of Dream-Interpretation in Psycho-Analysis. SE 12, 89-96.

• The Dynamics of Transference. SE 12 (1916-17 ) Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis. S.E., 16. Lecture XXVII Transference, and Lecture XXVII, Analytic therapy. (1937 ) Constructions in Analysis. S.E., 23 (For these texts, see S.E in office)

Seminar 2

Friday 6th February 12.30 - 2.00pm

Mrs Rosemary Davies

In this seminar we will look at Strachey's influential classic 1934 paper on the 'mutative' transference interpretation in the immediacy of the analytic relationship.

You may be interested to read in this context Sterba's paper of the same year which took a very different line and underpins a different theoretical tradition in relation to technique and the transference.

Essential Reading :

Strachey, J. (1934). The Nature of the Therapeutic Action of Psycho-Analysis. International Journal of Psychoanalysis , 15 : 127-159 Folder/PEP
[Also reprinted in International Journal of Psychoanalysis 50: 275-292]

Further Reading :

Sterba, R. (1934) The Fate of the Ego in Analytic Therapy. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 15: 117-126. Folder/PEP

Rosenfeld, H. (1972). A Critical Appreciation of James Strachey's Paper on the

Nature of the Therapeutic Action of Psycho-Analysis. International Journal of Psychoanalysis , 53:455-461 Folder/PEP

Seminar 3

Saturday 7th F 1.45 - 3.15pm

Mr Richard Rusbridger

In this seminar we will look at the widening of the concept of transference by Klein to include what she called the 'total transference'. We will discuss the effect of this, and of the interest from 1950 onwards in a wider definition than Freud's of countertransference, on attention to acting in/out (Sandler/Joseph).

Essential Reading :

Joseph, B. (1985) 'Transference: The Total Situation.' International Journal of Psychoanalysis , 66: 447-474. Folder/PEP

[This paper is also in Psychic Equilibrium and Psychic Change: Selected Papers of Betty Joseph , ed. by M. Feldman and E. Bott Spillius. London : Tavistock/Routledge (1989) pp. 156-167 and also in Melanie Klein Today: Vol. 2, Mainly Practice , ed. E. Bott Spillius. London : Routledge (1988), pp. 61-72.]

O'Shaughnessy, E. (1983) 'Words and Working Through' International Journal of Psychoanalysis 1983; 64: 281-9 Folder/PEP

Sandler, J. (1976) Countertransference and Role-Responsiveness. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. , 3:43-47. Folder/PEP

Further reading:

Klein, M. (1952). The Origins of Transference. International Journal of Psychoanalysis , 33: 433-438. Folder/PEP [Also in The Writings of Melanie Klein, Vol. 3, pp.49-56. London : Hogarth Press, 1975, and Virago Press, 1997.]

Seminar 4

Saturday 13th February 12.30 - 2.00pm

Mrs Rosemary Davies

In this seminar, I suggest we look at the various views on the place of history in contemporary psychoanalytic technique. Green (2001) for example thinks we should reassert the role of history in psychoanalytic technique and critiques what he calls the 'widespread technique of the 'here and now''. On the other Feldman (2005) describes a technique in which 'what we think of as historical objects are internal objects and these can be most fully recognized in the present'

Essential reading :

*Sandler J. (1983). Reflections on some relations between psychoanalytic concepts and psychoanalytic practice. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 64: 35-45.

*Green, A. (2001).The passion of history confronted with the failure of psychoanalytic historical thinking, in Within Time and Beyond Time: A Festschrift for Pearl King, ed. R. Steiner and J. Johns, London: Karnac Books

*Feldman, M (2005). The Illumination of History. EPF Bulletin 2005.

*Spillius, E. Klein and the Past. (This is a chapter from Elizabeth Spillius' forthcoming book Encounters with Melanie Klein edited by Roth and Rusbridger).

Further reading:

Bollas, C (1995) Cracking Up London Free Association Books. Chapter 5

Freud S.E (1937) Constructions in Analysis SE 23

Kennedy,R (2007) The Many Voices of Psychoanalysis. London : Routledge Chapter 5

Yorke, C The Unconscious, past, present and future in Within Time and Beyond Time: A Festschrift for Pearl King, ed. R. Steiner and J. Johns, London : Karnac Books