Introduction to Psychoanalysis
A rigorous opening course on the emergence, language, and central problems of psychoanalysis.
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Courses
Psychoanalysis and Literature
A humanistic reading course on interpretation, narrative, character, unconscious motifs, and form.
Freud, Klein, and Winnicott
A comparative pathway through drive, object, environment, conflict, and development.
The Unconscious Across Psychoanalytic Traditions
A comparative study of how different traditions understand the unconscious and its formations.
Psychoanalysis and Cinema
A course on spectatorship, fantasy, identification, desire, image, and cinematic modernity.
Key Concepts in Psychoanalytic Thought
An organized map of repetition, transference, drive, object, fantasy, symbolization, and interpretation.
Psychoanalysis and Society
A course connecting psychic life with institutions, culture, social bonds, and historical crisis.
Freud: Core Concepts
A focused introduction to repression, dream-work, infantile sexuality, conflict, and the metapsychological legacy.
Melanie Klein: Introduction
An entry point into positions, phantasy, internal objects, envy, reparation, and early anxiety.
Bion: Thinking and Emotional Experience
A careful introduction to containment, alpha function, attacks on linking, and emotional knowledge.
Jung and Analytical Psychology
An introductory course on complexes, individuation, archetypes, symbol, myth, and psychic transformation.
Lacan: An Introduction
A structured orientation to the symbolic, imaginary, real, desire, signifier, and subject formation.
Winnicott: Theory and Clinical Vision
A study of holding, transitionality, play, true and false self, and environmental provision.
Theories of Anxiety in Psychoanalysis
Anxiety read across Freudian, Kleinian, object relations, and contemporary perspectives.
Object Relations and Contemporary Clinical Thought
A course on the afterlives of object relations in clinical, relational, and post-Kleinian work.