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All registrants will receive their link to join via ZOOM. Course material will be sent 1 day before the event. Time includes a tea break. All attendees will also receive access to the recording, available to watch back for 1 month.
This three-hour course will focus on Winnicott’s celebrated 1971 text ‘Playing and Reality’. The work opens with his classic 1951 paper ‘Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena’ and the chapters that follow set out and explain the later development of his thinking. Topics receiving detailed treatment include ‘Play’, ‘Creativity’ and ‘The location of cultural experience’, and by the end of the work Winnicot has set out a profound philosophy of the human condition – taking in science, art and religion – based on a life time of psychoanalytic observation and reflection.
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Speaker:
Keith Barrett BA PhD received his first degree in philosophy from Oxford University after having spent three years working as a nursing assistant in psychiatric hospitals. It was in this practical context that Keith first encountered existentialism and psychoanalysis. He then began postgraduate studies on both Freud and Heidegger, leading finally to a PhD from the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL for a dissertation on ‘Freud’s Self-Analysis’. Keith has been a philosophy teacher for over 20 years, and has been delivering courses at the Freud Museum for over a decade, where he has developed a series of introductory lectures on Freud, psychoanalysis after Freud, and the overlap of philosophy and psychoanalysis.
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Tickets £ 20
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