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 of mourning - reality testing, identification,...

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-psychology; Freud's view of mourning; Melancholia; Freud’s...

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), weaknesses of Freud's view, what to retain from the Oedipus...

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 trajectory, castration complex, penis envy, identification),...

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 runs away with us, words and the internet, colonising...

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, colonising the body, necessity of drives in...

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 secondary repression (conflict, cleaving of thought...

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, cleaving of thought & affect), the paradox of...

How socialisation shapes our relationship to the world and our knowledge of ourselves. This lecture addresses: attachment and neoteny, ingroup/outgroup, social conflict, internalisation of rules of social order/morality, surplus repression, conflict at...

A psychoanalytic understanding of motivation. This lecture addresses: Being wanters and knowers; Drives - definitions, attributes, erotogenic zones; Affects - Tomkins, Panksepp & Solms, Damasio, vs emotions. Contact Email:...

How we are strangers to ourselves. This lecture addresses the questions raised by psychoanalysis; the movement of Freud's thought over time; symptoms, repression and trauma; dreams; and psychoanalytic genres.

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...