The Practice of Psychoanalysis – and the conception of ‘cure’ – across the psychoanalytic schools

All registrants will receive their link to join via ZOOM. Attendees will also receive access to the recording on the Monday after the event, available to watch back for 1 month.

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This three-hour course will begin by reviewing Freud’s recommendations on the practice of analysis, and his understanding of what is involved in the ‘cure’. This will lead into a comparison of his ideas and methods with those of the main schools of psychoanalysis developing out of, and in some cases through criticism, of his work.

Freud’s early collaborators, Jung and Ferenczi, both ended by powerfully criticizing his way of practicing analysis, and we will examine their therapeutic innovations, as well as the technique and aims of Kleinian analysis, Donald Winnicott, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and the relational school.

Finally, we will ask if Freud’s practice of analysis – and conception of cure – can be said to have survived in any sense into the early 21st century.

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Speakers:

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 exploring the overlap of philosophy and psychoanalysis.

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Tickets: £45

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A limited number of £15 bursary tickets are available for those under financial hardship. Priority will be given to UK unemployed and PIP/ESA claimants. Please email [email protected] to apply for a bursary.

The purpose of this event is to raise funds for the Freud Museum London, which receives no regular Government income. We are grateful to you for supporting our independent museum as generously as possible.