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Origins of Psychoanalysis, Freud
Origins of Psychoanalysis, Freud
October 23, 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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October 23, 2020 — Freud on Narcissism, Instincts, Repression, Mourning and the Unconscious
[46 pages]
Seminar objectives:
- Understand Freud’s view of narcissism.
- Become familiar with Freud’s concept of instincts.
- Understand Freud’s view on melancholia and how it differed from mourning.
- Become familiar with terms such as repression, object-cathexis, anticathexis, auto-eroticism, ego-libido, object libido and ego instinct.
- Become familiar with Freud’s metapsychology.
- Understand Freud’s use of the term “repression” and “defense.”
- Become familiar with Freud’s phases of repression.
Gay, P. (ed) (1989) “On Narcissism”, in The Freud Reader, pp545-562
Gay, P. (ed) (1989) “Instincts and Their Vicissitudes, Repression, The Unconscious, Mourning and Melancholia”, in The Freud Reader, pp562-589
