PL429
The Introductory Course is designed to acquaint students with the scope and evolution of Freud's thinking and with significant developments in psychoanalysis since his time. Students will study and assess:
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Freud's and Breuer's first formulation of the nature and etiology of hysteria—Studies on Hysteria;
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Freud's groundbreaking work in dream interpretation and the nature of unconscious processes—The Interpretation of Dreams and Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis;
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Freud's attempt to apply his novel theory of unconscious mechanisms to cultural anthropology as well as individual psychology—Totem and Taboo and;
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the implications of the ongoing revisions in Freud's classification of the instincts—The Ego and the Id, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Civilization and Its Discontents.
Students will also work with primary sources selected from the following: Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, David Winnicott, Heinz Kohut, Jacques Lacan, Rene Girard, Julia Kristeva, and others.
PY879
Introduction to Psychoanalysis may in some instances be substituted for PL429, though all students in the minor are encouraged to take both courses. UN879 offers a topical introduction to psychoanalysis, rather than a chronological reading of Freudian texts.
UN879
Taught by Boston College University Professor of Psychoanalysis William W. Meissner, S.J., M.D., this course serves as a clinically oriented introduction to psychoanalysis. The invited lecturers for this course are nationally recognized psychoanalysts who present the fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis.