Freud famously said that the aim of psychoanalysis was to enable us to work, love and play with minimum conflict. So what gets in the way of us doing that? Philosophy of Psychoanalysis is an educational course presented at a third-year tertiary education level by A/Prof. Doris McIlwain. The course aims to ground you in the basics: the nature of unconscious processes, repression, sexuality, dreams, morality, grief, gender identity, drives and affects and their implications for perception, memory and creative processes, as well as for certain forms of psychopathology. Then, it considers the wider societal relevance of psychoanalysis to issues of the internet, femininity, charisma, cults, spin doctors, hypocrisy and political power. For the more clinically minded, the course covers an array of post-Freudian perspectives, including Jacques Lacan, Melanie Klein, Object Relations theory, Kohut’s self-psychology, Winnicott, and relational psychoanalysis. You should leave the course with a grasp of the kinds of psychoanalysis that are used currently in clinical contexts. Sadly A/Prof. Doris McIlwain, the course creator, died of cancer in 2015. This podcast is created by her family and friends, with hopes that her curiosity, joy and intellectual playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.
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Knowing and not knowing: Exploring the structure and conditions of unconscious processes. This lecture is the second of two that address; unconscious mental states, secondary repression, mechanics of secondary repression (conflict, cleaving of thought & affect), the paradox of repression, the problem of the censor (Sartre) and Doris's solution to this via an anxious psychic pistol shot, motivations for repression (attitudes, cultural norms), primal repression, content and maintenance of repr...
Who is the ‘self’? Understanding the things we push down. This lecture is the first of two that address; unconscious mental states, secondary repression, mechanics of secondary repression (conflict, cleaving of thought & affect), the paradox of repression, the problem of the censor (Sartre) and Doris's solution to this via an anxious psychic pistol shot, motivations for repression (attitudes, cultural norms), primal repression, content and maintenance of repression, repression vs suppression...
How socialisation shapes our relationship to the world and our knowledge of ourselves. This lecture addresses: attachment and neoteny, ingroup/outgroup, social conflict, internalisation of rules of social order/morality, surplus repression, conflict at core, executive function of ego, affective dams, cultural impossibility of particular desires and triggering of defences, affects and anxiety; Suppression and Repression; Dreamwork and Interpretation. Contact Email: philosophyofpsychoanalysis@gmai...
A psychoanalytic understanding of motivation. This lecture addresses: Being wanters and knowers; Drives - definitions, attributes, erotogenic zones; Affects - Tomkins, Panksepp & Solms, Damasio, vs emotions. Contact Email: philosophyofpsychoanalysis@gmail.com Lecturer: Associate Professor Doris McIlwain Producer: Nina McIlwain Theme song: Rose Mackenzie-Peterson Artwork: Campbell Henderson https://www.campbellhenderson.com/artwork Thanks to Dr. Andrew Geeves and to Professor John Sutton for ...
How we are strangers to ourselves. This lecture addresses the questions raised by psychoanalysis; the movement of Freud's thought over time; symptoms, repression and trauma; dreams; and psychoanalytic genres. Contact Email: philosophyofpsychoanalysis@gmail.com Lecturer: Associate Professor Doris McIlwain Producer: Nina McIlwain Theme song: Rose Mackenzie-Peterson Artwork: Campbell Henderson https://www.campbellhenderson.com/artwork Thanks to Dr. Andrew Geeves and to Professor John Sutton for all...
Freud famously said that the aim of psychoanalysis was to enable us to work, love and play with minimum conflict. So what gets in the way of us doing that? Philosophy of Psychoanalysis is an educational course presented at a third-year tertiary education level by A/Prof. Doris McIlwain. The course aims to ground you in the basics: the nature of unconscious processes, repression, sexuality, dreams, morality, grief, gender identity, drives and affects and their implications for perception, memory ...
