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Psychoanalytic study organized with academic clarity and institutional continuity.
Courses, certificate programs, faculty work, and multilingual study are presented within a coherent academic structure for readers, clinicians, researchers, and advanced students.
Certificate pathways for continuity
Visible teaching and editorial voices
Institutional Focus
The curriculum is arranged to support continuity of study, conceptual precision, and long-term engagement with major psychoanalytic traditions.
Academic Structure
Distinct routes through major psychoanalytic traditions.
Freud, Klein, Winnicott, Lacan, Jung, Bion, and comparative study are presented as structured fields of inquiry with their own concepts, authors, and sequences of study.
Freudian Studies
Conflict, dream work, drive, repression, transference, and metapsychology.
Object Relations
Klein, Winnicott, Bion, early anxiety, emotional experience, and environment.
Clinic and Culture
Study at the intersection of literature, cinema, institutions, and contemporary symbolic life.
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Study begins with orientation, develops through sequence and faculty guidance, and continues within a broader editorial and academic framework.
Institutional Direction
A clearer presentation of the school's academic identity.
The homepage now emphasizes structure, credibility, and continuity, with a more measured visual language across the institution.
Comparative Breadth
Freudian, Kleinian, Winnicottian, Lacanian, Jungian, and contemporary perspectives are presented with clearer hierarchy and orientation.
Multilingual Structure
English, Portuguese, and Spanish remain integral to the academic structure, navigation, and study environment.
Institutional Tone
The visual language now favors institutional sobriety, stronger contrast, and more disciplined use of space and typography.
Academic Continuity
Courses, certificate programs, faculty, and journal are positioned as parts of one academic ecosystem.
Academic Progression
A coherent path from introductory study to advanced continuity.
The homepage, catalog, certificate programs, faculty, and journal are organized to help students understand progression across the institution.
Working languages
Three languages integrated into one academic identity.
EnglishGlobal-facing entry point
PortuguêsBrazilian and Lusophone route
EspañolHispanic and transnational route
Institutional formats
Courses
Short and medium-length study units organized around clear conceptual frameworks.
Certificates
Structured sequences that make continuity and recognition visible.
Journal
Essays, lectures, and notes that extend the institution's academic work.
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Begin with an introductory course or a defined school of psychoanalysis.
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Continue through certificate programs that give structure to sustained study.
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Deepen through comparative reading, journal work, and faculty-led material.
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Progress through multilingual routes within one institutional framework.
Schools of Psychoanalysis
An overview of distinct psychoanalytic traditions.
Each school is presented as a field of study with its own concepts, authors, and clinical questions.
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Holding, transitionality, play, environment, and the true and false self.
View traditionFeatured Courses
Courses organized by theme, level, and field of study.
FoundationsBeginner
Introduction to Psychoanalysis
A rigorous opening course on the emergence, language, and central problems of psychoanalysis.
Culture and HumanitiesBeginner
Psychoanalysis and Literature
A humanistic reading course on interpretation, narrative, character, unconscious motifs, and form.
Comparative StudiesIntermediate
Freud, Klein, and Winnicott
A comparative pathway through drive, object, environment, conflict, and development.
FoundationsBeginner
The Unconscious Across Psychoanalytic Traditions
A comparative study of how different traditions understand the unconscious and its formations.
Culture and HumanitiesBeginner
Psychoanalysis and Cinema
A course on spectatorship, fantasy, identification, desire, image, and cinematic modernity.
FoundationsBeginner
Key Concepts in Psychoanalytic Thought
An organized map of repetition, transference, drive, object, fantasy, symbolization, and interpretation.
Certificate Programs
Certificate programs for structured continuity of study.
Certificate$125
Certificate in Foundations of Psychoanalysis
A structured introductory pathway for students beginning psychoanalytic study.
- Introduction to Psychoanalysis
- The Unconscious Across Psychoanalytic Traditions
- Key Concepts in Psychoanalytic Thought
Certificate$139
Certificate in Freudian Studies
A compact certificate dedicated to Freud and his conceptual legacy in later dialogues.
- Freud: Core Concepts
- Freud, Klein, and Winnicott
Certificate$149
Certificate in Psychoanalysis and Culture
A humanities-facing program on culture, interpretation, institutions, and symbolic life.
- Psychoanalysis and Literature
- Psychoanalysis and Cinema
- Psychoanalysis and Society
Certificate$219
Certificate in Comparative Psychoanalysis
A bundle centered on comparison, contrast, and conceptual dialogue across traditions.
- Freud, Klein, and Winnicott
- Theories of Anxiety in Psychoanalysis
- Object Relations and Contemporary Clinical Thought
Certificate$249
Certificate in Object Relations
A substantial pathway through Klein, Winnicott, Bion, and contemporary object relations.
- Melanie Klein: Introduction
- Winnicott: Theory and Clinical Vision
- Bion: Thinking and Emotional Experience
- Object Relations and Contemporary Clinical Thought
Faculty
Faculty presented within the institutional and academic context of the school.
Clara Monteiro
Director of Comparative StudiesWorks on Freudian metapsychology, translation, and institutional forms of psychoanalytic education.
Adrian Klein
Faculty in Object RelationsTeaches Kleinian and post-Kleinian thought with a focus on emotional experience and clinical reading.
María Soledad Rivas
Faculty in Culture and HumanitiesWorks at the intersection of psychoanalysis, aesthetics, cinema, and political culture.
Journal
Editorial essays and academic notes published by the institution.
Journal
Psychoanalysis Between Clinic and Culture
A note on why psychoanalytic education must remain open to literature, cinema, and social thought.
Lectures
Reading Freud Today
On the difference between citation, institutional homage, and real reading.
Essays
Why Comparative Psychoanalysis Matters
A short editorial reflection on the intellectual value of studying psychoanalysis across schools.
Begin with a course and continue through the wider academic program of the school.
Each section of the site is designed to support orientation, sustained study, faculty engagement, and editorial continuity.