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British Object Relations
September 11, 2020 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, Freud Classroom
Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2020-21, 1st Trimester — Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm
Sue Neell Carlson, MA
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Introduction
Hello and welcome to British Object Relations (BOR). We have arranged this course with classical and contemporary writers from BOR theory to provide a rich introduction to this material. We want to give you a sense of what it is, from which we can then understand and explore its developments and its critiques. BOR is a theory born from creative and political controversy. It is also a living theory in so far as it continues to evolve with many branches evolving from the same trunk. In addition to the classical writers, we will explore BOR in Mexico, Central and South America and how theory interacts within a culture and context to make its own developments.
As this is a Theory course, our discussions will come alive with your clinical material. We hope to invite your questions, arguments, half-thoughts and to deepen our conversation.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this course Clinical Associates will be able to:
- Describe the fundamental concepts of BOR theory.
- Demonstrate increased capacity to recognize the analytic process through the here and now transference/countertransference experience.
- Understand some of the developments of British Object Relations to other parts of the world, specifically Mexico, Central and South America and its own development/creations in this cultural context.
- Empathize with the complexities of emotional experience as known through primitive mechanisms such as projective identification.
September 11, 2020 — Introduction to Melanie Klein’s Conception of Psychoanalytic Technique
[39 pages]
Klein, M., (2017) Ch1, “Guiding Principles” in Lectures on Technique. pp29-41.
Ogden, T.H. (1984). Instinct, Phantasy, and Psychological Deep Structure—A Reinterpretation of Aspects of the Work of Melanie Klein. Contemp. Psychoanal., 20:500-525.
Joseph, B. (2010). YouTube Video: “Meeting Betty Joseph”
“Encounters through the Generations”. 14 mins.
