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| 0662-1418-01 | Freud's Cat: Transformations in Contemporary Psychoanalysis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. However, his descendants have left the nest. The vicissitudes of psychoanalytic theory have led it to new domains, as a psychological theory as well as a therapeutic one. What was once, in the early days of psychoanalysis, one line of thought, has diverged into various branches, yielding different fruits. With time, different ideas concerning the nature of the human mind and its derivatives, and the ways in which we can know ourselves and others, have ripened, both within the therapeutic matrix and beyond it. All these converge into a fascinating network of theories that are interlinked in varied and complex affiliations.
During class, we will try to examine this network through major stages in the development of contemporary psychoanalytic ideas, from the mid-20th century up to present time. We will conceptualize the psychoanalysis of current days as a theoretical body that crystallizes transient truths that are valid per specific contexts rather than (over)using the somewhat authoritative and universal truths of classical psychoanalysis.
During class, we will try to examine this network through major stages in the development of contemporary psychoanalytic ideas, from the mid-20th century up to present time. We will conceptualize the psychoanalysis of current days as a theoretical body that crystallizes transient truths that are valid per specific contexts rather than (over)using the somewhat authoritative and universal truths of classical psychoanalysis.