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Event Series Event Series: Origins of Psychoanalysis, Freud

Origins of Psychoanalysis, Freud

September 11, 2020 @ 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm, Wyman Classroom

Fourth Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2020-21, 1st Trimester — Fridays, 1:45-3:15pm
Charlotte Malkmus, MA LMHC
Donald Schimmel, PhD


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Introduction

Welcome to our course on The Origins of Psychoanalysis and Freud’s Legacy.  Our objective with this course is to assist you in appreciating the foundations of psychoanalysis, i.e., how psychoanalysis began and how it has evolved.  During this seminar we will also make reference to, and encourage, discussion of how the theory and practice of contemporary psychoanalysis has changed since Freud.  The course readings are divided between a biography of Freud and his original writings.  We have selected chapters for you to read from Peter Gay’s classic book, Freud: A life for Our Time.  And, to compliment these biographical chapters, we have included many of Freud’s original writings from The Freud Reader edited by Peter Gay.

The texts are:

  1. A Life for Our Time, a biography of Sigmund Freud by Peter Gay, W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.; originally published in 1988.
  2. The Freud Reader edited by Peter Gay, W.W. Norton, Inc., 1989.

Learning Objectives

You will:

  1. learn the central tenets of psychoanalysis as originally conceived by Freud.
  2. learn how Freud’s theories evolved, and, at times, were altered. For example, you will learn about Freud’s original topographic model of the mind and how it evolved into the structural model.  You will also learn how Freud’s theories of anxiety radically changed.
  3. learn how Freud viewed repression, narcissism, mourning and the role of sexuality and aggression. You will also learn about Freud’s dream theory and how it compares and contrasts with contemporary theories of dreams.
  4. become familiar with some of Freud’s original cases studies, such as Anna O.
  5. ith Freud’s theory of neutrality and abstinence and how these theories are viewed by contemporary analysts.

September 11, 2020 — Introduction

[58 pages]

Seminar objectives:

  1. Begin the study of the origins and meaning of psychoanalysis.
  2. Place Freud in his temporal and geographic surroundings.
  3. Learn about Freud’s early life and family and the possible impact of his childhood and youth on the development of psychoanalysis.

Gay, P. (1988) Preface in Freud: A Life for Our Time, pp xv-xx

Gay, P. (1988) Chapter 1 in Freud: A Life for Our Time, pp3-54



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September 11, 2020
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1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
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SPSI
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SPSI
4020 E Madison St, #230
Seattle, WA 98112
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