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Development I: Birth to 5 Years
November 6, 2020 @ 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm, Freud Classroom
Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2020-21, 1st Trimester — Fridays, 1:45-3:15pm
Judy K. Eekhoff, PhD
Kelly Lippman, LMHC
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November 6, 2020 — Dimensionality – Triadic Relations
[39 pages]
The movement from one person to two person to three person relating is accompanied by an internal capacity to tolerate more than one thought and relationship at a time. We will discuss the contemporary idea of psychic dimensionality and its relationship to the early ideas of the oedipal situation. We will also explore how ideas of sameness and difference contribute to a capacity to think abstractly.
Edgcumbe, R. Burgner, M. (1975). The Phallic-Narcissistic Phase—A Differentiation Between Preoedipal and Oedipal Aspects of Phallic Development. Psychoanal. St. Child, 30:161-180.
Alvarez, A. (1998). Failures to Link: Attacks or Defects? Some Questions Concerning the Thinkability of Oedipal and Pre-Oedipal Thoughts. J. Child Psychother., 24(2):213-231.
Optional Reading
Klein, M. (1928). Early Stages of the Oedipus Conflict. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 9:167-180.