Origins of Psychoanalysis, Freud

Second Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2022-23, 1st Trimester — Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm
Donald Schimmel, PhD
Christopher J. Keats, MD

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November 4, 2022 — Freud on Culture and Society

[50 pages]

Seminar objective:

1. Become familiar with how Freud applied psychoanalytic concepts to the foundations of culture and society, focusing on Freud’s “Totem and Taboo” and the origin of the “Oedipus Complex.”

• The Freud Reader: Totem and Taboo, pp.481-513 – 32 pages

Gay, P. (1988) Chapter 7 in Freud: A Life for Our Time, pp306-360

Read pages 324-342 (18 pages; ignore the automatic page count above).

Optional Reading

Stoute, B.J. (2017) “Race and Racism in Psychoanalytic Thought: The Ghosts in Our Nursery”, The American Psychoanalyst, 51:1