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INTRODUCING FREUD [Full Course]
In this complete series of INTRODUCING FREUD with Keith Barrett, you will learn in detail about Freud’s seminal theories, over 5 sessions. The courses are designed to be accessible to beginners – but are also for those already familiar with Freud’s work who wish to acquaint themselves with the results of the latest research and scholarship, and up-date themselves on the recent debates addressing the intellectual issues and controversies surrounding it.
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PROJECTIONS: Shrinks on Screen
This course, with Mary Wild, looks at examples of shrinks on screen - portrayals of mental health professionals in cinema & TV.
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PROJECTIONS: David Bowie Music Videos and Filmography
This course, with Mary Wild, will take a psychoanalytical look at Bowie's music videos, filmography, personas, childhood trauma, struggle with mental illness and more.
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PROJECTIONS: Death Drive on Film
This course, with Mary Wild, will attempt to isolate the death drive on film, engaging with cinematic representations of the urge to relive painful past events.
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PROJECTIONS: Woody Allen – The Cinema of Neurosis
This course, with Mary Wild, highlights the running theme of obstacles preventing people from enjoying life.
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PROJECTIONS: Oedipus Complex on Film
In this course, we will observe and interpret cinematic representations of the so-called ‘Family Romance’ taboo, specifically the impulse of the male child to desire his mother. Online course with Mary Wild.
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The Monstrous Feminine
Join Dr Elizabeth Dearnley and Dr Katharine Fry for this 3-part online course, exploring formidable female figures in folklore, fairy tales and cinema alongside the psychoanalytic theories of Kristeva and Freud.
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The Gothic Tales of Angela Carter
Day course with Dr Elizabeth Dearnley and Dr Katharine Fry, originally broadcast on International Women's Day 2021
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Living Dolls: The Doll in Literature, Art and Cinema
The doll is a key figure in literature, art and film – as trapped animate being, doppelgänger, and potential friend or foe. An online course with Dr Elizabeth Dearnley and Dr Katharine Fry.
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Freud and Fairy Tales
Join Dr Elizabeth Dearnley and Dr Katharine Fry for this 3-part online course, exploring Freud and fairy tales.
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INTRODUCING FREUD: (1) Hysteria and the Traumatic Neuroses
This course will explore hysteria as a cultural phenomenon of the late 19th cent, tracing its history up to the point when it became a psychoanalytic concept, and analysing in detail Freud’s thinking as he constructed his theories of the disorder. With Keith Barrett BA PhD.
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INTRODUCING FREUD (2): Dreams and their Interpretation
The Interpretation of Dreams’ (1900) remains one of the most important texts of psychoanalysis, and this course will examine in detail the practical method for interpreting dreams set out in that work, and the theory of dreams put forward to support it.
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INTRODUCING FREUD (3): Sexuality
We will explore the ideas Freud saw as his most important contribution to human knowledge, reviewing his theory of the central role of sexuality in emotional development, and asking the crucial question: Why Sex? That is, what were the factors – theoretical, cultural and personal – that lead Freud to make sexuality the cornerstone of his theory, and the chief focus of his work?
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INTRODUCING FREUD (4): Aims & Principles of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
The course will review all Freud’s major writings about the aims and principles of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and follow the stages in his development as a psychotherapist as he worked, over more than twenty years, to formulate the fundamental principles of his new treatment for the neuroses.
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INTRODUCING FREUD (5): The Problem of Human Happiness
As a student Freud was passionately interested in philosophical questions concerning the nature of human existence. One of the greatest works of the mature Freud – ‘Civilization and its Discontents’ (1930) – is devoted to the problem of human happiness, and on this course we will explore Freud’s philosophical thinking as set out in his later works devoted to society, religion and the nature of the human condition.
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Psychoanalysis and Violence
The course will explore psychoanalytic perspectives on the problem of violence. We will focus on war and genocide, poverty (‘the worst form of violence’ according to Mahatma Gandhi), empire and colonialism, the psychology of Fascism, and the destruction of the environment.
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Psychoanalysis After Freud (2) Klein and Object Relations
Klein’s writings contain a profound vision of the human condition, and we will examine its implications for psychotherapy and for society. We will also study the development of her ideas by Wilfred Bion.
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Freud and the Ancient Greeks: Tragedy, Philosophy and Therapy
Join Freud Museum Research Manager Tom DeRose on this three-part course that charts the affinities between Freud and ancient Greek thought.
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Psychoanalysis after Freud: Donald Winnicott and ‘Playing and Reality’
Join Keith Barrett on this course that examines Winnicott’s celebrated 1971 text ‘Playing and Reality’.
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Freud’s Italian Renaissance
Join Freud Museum Research Manager Tom DeRose on this two-part course that examines Freud’s fascination for the Italian Renaissance.