PTS 2030 Psychoanalytic theory and practice

A ten week course covering:

1. Precursors of psychoanalysis. Mesmer and the Nancy school, theories of the cognitive unconscious, Breuer, actual neurosis, 19^th. century accounts of child abuse, Kraftt-Ebbing, and the Project
2. Screen memories and the Oedipus complex, hysteria, repression, the return of the repressed, transference, the topographical model, resistance, the semiology of symptoms
3. The elaboration of meta-psychology, drive theory, the structural theory of the mind, narcissism,  fixation of sexual development.  The critiques of Jung, Adler, and Groddeck.  The defence of Anna Freud.
4. Fairbairn, Rivers, and anthropology.  The problem of reality.  Child analysis. Klein.  Object relations theorists. Kernberg
5. Empiricism and psychoanalysis.  Balint, Winnicott, Grinker, Bowlby
6. Empiricism and psychoanalysis 2. Developmental psychology.  Kanner, Bick, Mahler, Spitz, Stern
7. Ego and identity: ego psychology, Erikson, self psychology of Kohut
8. Language and psychotherapy: the French school, Deleuze, Lacan
9. Modern developments: relational, interpersonal, intersubjective
10. Critiques of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic responses: the hermeneutic turn, narrative theory, feminist, Marxist, and queer theory critiques, empirical critques (Gruenberg), ad hominem critiques (Masson).