Philosophy of Psychoanalysis

Philosophy of Psychoanalysis

Freud famously said that the aim of psychoanalysis was to enable us to work, love and play with minimum conflict. So what gets in the way of us doing that? Philosophy of Psychoanalysis is an educational course presented at a third-year tertiary education level by A/Prof. Doris McIlwain. The course aims to ground you in the basics: the nature of unconscious processes, repression, sexuality, dreams, morality, grief, gender identity, drives and affects and their implications for perception, memory and creative processes, as well as for certain forms of psychopathology. Then, it considers the wider societal relevance of psychoanalysis to issues of the internet, femininity, charisma, cults, spin doctors, hypocrisy and political power. For the more clinically minded, the course covers an array of post-Freudian perspectives, including Jacques Lacan, Melanie Klein, Object Relations theory, Kohut’s self-psychology, Winnicott, and relational psychoanalysis. You should leave the course with a grasp of the kinds of psychoanalysis that are used currently in clinical contexts. Sadly A/Prof. Doris McIlwain, the course creator, died of cancer in 2015. This podcast is created by her family and friends, with hopes that her curiosity, joy and intellectual playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

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The Porous Self: To Love and Mourn

The Porous Self: To Love and Mourn

Object relations in loss. This lecture is the second of two that address: Ego as precipitate of identifications, Kohut's self-psychology; Freud's view of mourning; Melancholia; Freud’s diagnostic use ...

24 Jun 202037min

Reality Testing: Love and Loss

Reality Testing: Love and Loss

Mourning and Love as Revelation. How does mourning reveal ourselves and our lost love to us? This lecture is the first of two that address: Ego as precipitate of identifications, Kohut's self-psycholo...

17 Jun 202047min

The Oedipus Complex

The Oedipus Complex

This lecture is the second of two that address: Morality - Freud's view, Oedipus complex (ambivalent love, superego, male and female trajectory, castration complex, penis envy, identification), weakne...

10 Jun 202043min

Morality and Gender: The Superego and the Self

Morality and Gender: The Superego and the Self

How does our family shape our sense of morality and gender? This lecture is the first of two that address: Morality - Freud's view, Oedipus complex (ambivalent love, superego, male and female trajecto...

3 Jun 202034min

Attachment, Perversion and Online Presence

Attachment, Perversion and Online Presence

Do we leave the body at the screen? The pleasure of representation and the representation of pleasure. This lecture is the second of two that address; Role of the body in psychoanalysis - language run...

27 Mai 202039min

Bodies and Words: Biology vs. Relationship

Bodies and Words: Biology vs. Relationship

How we are shaped by our biological drives, relationships, culture and language. This lecture is the first of two that address; Role of the body in psychoanalysis - language, words and the internet, c...

20 Mai 202048min

Mapping Out the Terrain of the Unconscious

Mapping Out the Terrain of the Unconscious

Knowing and not knowing: Exploring the structure and conditions of unconscious processes. This lecture is the second of two that address; unconscious mental states, secondary repression, mechanics of ...

13 Mai 202044min

Motivated Unknowing: Repression with a Hint of Dissociation

Motivated Unknowing: Repression with a Hint of Dissociation

Who is the ‘self’? Understanding the things we push down. This lecture is the first of two that address; unconscious mental states, secondary repression, mechanics of secondary repression (conflict, c...

6 Mai 202048min

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