| Objectives: |
This course aims to introduce students to the historical emergence, central concepts, major schools, and contemporary debates of psychoanalytic theory. Beginning with Freud’s discovery of the unconscious and the development of metapsychology, the course examines key transformations in psychoanalytic thought, including ego psychology, object relations, self psychology, Lacanian psychoanalysis, feminist critiques, anti-Oedipal critiques, cultural psychoanalysis, and neuro-psychoanalysis. The course also encourages students to evaluate psychoanalysis as a clinical, theoretical, cultural, and critical tradition. |
| Content: |
The contents of the course include the birth of the unconscious, Freud’s topographical and structural models, drive theory, psychosexual development, ego psychology, object relations theory, Winnicott’s theory of development, Kohut’s self psychology, Lacanian psychoanalysis, feminist critiques of psychoanalysis, Deleuze and Guattari’s critique of the Oedipal model, psychoanalytic approaches to culture and spectatorship, neuro-psychoanalysis, and contemporary developments in psychoanalytic theory and institutions. |