Readings
Adam Phillips, Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst
1-13 (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2014)
Stephen Grosz, The Examined Life: How We Lose and
Find Ourselves 146-150, 167-178 (New York: W.W. Norton, 2013)
Class Videos
Preface
Class Viewing 1: An
Archaeology of the Mind [1:07 mins.] [Freud Museum
London] [commentary by John Forrester &
Astrid Gessert]
Class Viewing 2: Psychoanalysis:
An Introduction [6:40 mins.]
[psychoanalysts talk about psychoanalysis] [appearances by David A.
Smith, Harold Kudler, Paul Brinich, Heather A. Craig, Tom Linden]
Introduction
Class Viewing 3: Sigmund
Freud: Thinkers for Our Time [1:27:42
mins.] [The British Academy] [2015] [Stephen Frosh's "academic
work has focused on helping to establish the new discipline of psychosocial
studies, especially through considering the psychological, social
and cultural applications of psychoanalytic theory." Birkbeck,
University of London] [Frosh comments on the saturation of our culture
with Freud's ideas] ["We have minds that are complex"; "we
each have depths hard to plumb" and this turns out to be "a
Freudian idea"] [Begin at 4:30 mins.; ends at 9:32 mins.] [For
a longer presentation end at 15:45 mins.; Frosh comments on psychoanalysis
as a "marginal discipline." and while we know that psychoanalyis
is a form of therapy, Frosh advises that it is better thought of as
a "discipline, a way of knowing things."]
Class Viewing 4: Interview
with Mark Solms [21:38 mins.]
[Mark Solms is a South African psychoanalyst and neuropsychologist.
He currently holds the Chair of Neuropsychology at the University
of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital (Departments of Psychology
and Neurology) and is the President of the South African Psychoanalytical
Association.] [Begin at 0:43 mins.; end at
8:42 mins.] [For a longer presentation skip from 8:42 mins. to 12:14
mins.; end at 14:22 mins] ["what is unique to psychoanalysis
is that we deal with subjective experience"; what did Freud get
right: 1) "the ubiquity of unconscious processes"; 2) importance
of early childhood experience; 3) instinctual life (basic drives);
4) insights into dreams.]
Class Viewing 5: Jordan
Peterson: Freud and the Dynamic Unconscious [48:21
mins.] [2017 course lecture in Peterson's course, Personality and
Its Transformation] [brief introduction to the Oedipal complex; Freud
helped us think more carefully about the unconscious; "the idea
that you are one mind is a dubious" proposition; "we are
fractionated"; "unconscious processes are a living thing";
viewing our interior parts as "subpersonalities"; Freud
came up with a systematic theory of "what is not accessible to
our awareness"; "you can act out things you don't understand";
"your dreams watch you act"; dreams contain information
that "you are not consciously aware of"; Freud focused on
sexual and aggressive impulses; some things are not allowed to surface
(to the conscious mind)] [end the Peterson lecture at 6:53 mins.;
begin again at 15:13 mins, end at 28:35 mins.] [selected viewing:
20 mins.]
Optional (The School of Life, Introduction to Freud
and Psycholanalysis)
Psychotherapy:
Sigmund Freud [7:19 mins.] [end presentation at
2:31 mins.]
How
Our Childhoods Affect Our Adult Lives [7:58 mins.]
How
Our Past Influences Our Present [7:35 mins.]
Footnotes
Adam
Phillips: One Way and Another [17:19
mins.] [streamed live on December 2, 2013] [begin presentation at
1:16 mins.; end at 8:42 mins.] [Phillips comments on psychoanalysis
and neuroscience, at 13:32 mins., ends at 14:52 mins.] [full-length
version of the video :: 57:31 mins.]
Psychoanalysis
and Literature [1:43:43
mins.] [Mark Edmundson comments at 20:09 mins. to 23:45 mins., pick
up again at 47:20 mins. to 49:23 mins. (Freud has no "functional
theory of happiness") (with a nod to Adam Philips)]
Footnotes to the Solms Presentation
Jordan Peterson on a Neuroscience Approach to Personality
Alternative Class Video (Jordan Peterson)
Jordan
Peterson Lecture: Freud: An Overview [1:18:39
mins.] [2016 course lecture in Peterson's course, Personality and
Its Transformation] [one possible viewing would end the Peterson lecture
at 46:04 mins; alternatively, view the entire video]
Jordan
Peterson Lecture: Freud [1:14:39 mins.] [2015
course lecture in Peterson's course, Personality and Its Transformation]
Lecture Part II [1:16:06 mins.] [in class viewing can end at 38:50
mins.]
Jordan
Peterson Explains Psychoanalytic Theory [24:13
mins.]
reference: Jordan
Peterson Lectures and Videos
Introduction: What Is Psychoanalysis
What
is Psychoanalysis?
[8:39 mins.] [Freud Museum London] Pt2
[10:14 mins.] Pt3
[10:45 mins.] Pt4
[10:58 mins.]
The
Analytic Cure Across the Schools
[1:56:38 mins.] [Don Carveth] [first possible end
of the presentation at 7:41 mins.; resume presentation at 10:26 mins.
(on strengthening the ego), end at 19:06 mins. (when Carveth turns
to Melanie Klein)]
Introduction
to Psychology: Freud
[56:30 mins.] [Paul Bloom, Yale University] [2008]
[begin presentation at 1:58 mins. and end class presentation at 20:48
mins.] [on ego defense mechanisms, see 20:48 mins. to 25:40 mins.]
[for a longer presentation end at 28:40 mins.] [at 32:52 mins. Bloom
discusses the contemporary critique of Freudian theory]
Psychoanalysis: A Cautionary Note
Jordan
Peterson: Carl Rogers, Humanism, Phenomenology
[50:09 mins.] [Peterson comments on his regard
for psychoanalysis, and how it may not always provide the best perspective
in a clinical setting; begin presentation at 13:35 mins. and end at
20:12 mins.]
Nancy
McWilliams on Psychoanalysis and its Discontents (and Hopes for the
Future)
[33:30 mins.]
Integral
Psychology & Relational Psychoanalysis
[12:29 mins.]
The
Analytic and the Relational: Inquiring into Psychotherapy Practice
[1:01:16 mins.] [Farhad Dalal]
Reference (Jordan Peterson)
Civilize
Your Primal Motivations
[2:43 mins.]
Peterson
Explains Psychoanalytic Theory
[24:13 mins.] [poor quality video]
Reference (Adam Phillips)
On
Vacancies of Attention
[1:11:47 mins.] [Brown University, 2017] [Phillips
lecture begins at 3:46 mins., ends at 49:44 mins.]
Freud's
Helplessness
[1:21:39 mins.] [Berkeley, California, 2009]
[Phillips' presentation begins at 4:20 mins.]
On
Kindness
[5:45 mins.]
Autobiography
[2:05 mins.] [comments on reading Jung's Memories,
Dreams, and Reflections]
Interview
[14:31 mins.] [2011]
[Phillips comments on therapy at 4:18 mins. to 6:14 mins.; on therapy
and theories; listening for the sentence; stories can be defensive
(a coherent narrative ecludes a lot of anomalous and difficult things)]
Writing a Book
about Freud
[4:02 mins.] [Adam Phillips] Pt2
[6:32 mins.]
Adam
Phillips On Becoming Freud
[53:46 mins.]
Freud's
Impossible Life
[48:14 mins.] [audio] [podcast originally published
by the University of Oxford Podcast Series in November, 2012]
On
the Couch: Adam Phillips & Daphne Merkin
[53:46 mins.]
On
Being Too Much for Ourselves
[13:42 mins.] [audio]
Pleasure
and Frustration
[6:08 mins.]
Live
from the New York Public Library
[6:09 mins.]
An Interview
with Adam Phillips
[4:03 mins.] Pt2
[6:32 mins.]
An
Interview of Adam Phillips
[57:31 mins.]
Conversation
with Psychoanalyst James Mann
[1:02:37 mins.] [relates his early interest in
psychoanalysis to reading Jung's Memories, Dreams, Reflections]
[talking about his book Unforbidden Pleasures]
Talking with
Chris Oakley about Unforbidden Pleasures
[1:03:03 mins.]
On
Money
[44:36 mins.]
Missing
Out
[1:01:10 mins.]
On
Losing and Being Lost Again
[56:59 mins.] [Phillips' presentation
begins at 3:26 mins.]
In
Conversation with Andrew Miller
[1:28:51 mins.]
Adam
Phillips on Sebald
[3:39 mins.]
Reference (Mark Solm)
Class Viewing 5: A
Neuropsychoanalytic Approach to the "Talking Cure"
[1:49:00 mins.] [National Psychological Association For Psychoanalysis
| The New School] [The Solms lecture begins at 1:08:00 mins.; runs
approx. 38 mins.] [for a short presentation, end at 1:12:55 mins.
(for a 5 min. presentation[a "neuro-scientific story" about
psychoanalysis] [The lecture that proceeds the Solms presentation
on this video is by Jaak Panksepp, "Ancestral Memories: Brain Affective
Systems, Ancient Emotional Vocalizations, and the Sources of Our
Communicative Urges"]
Neuro-Psychoanalysis:
Where Mind Meets Brain
[29:15 mins.]
The
Role of the Unconscious
[10:56 mins.]
Psychoanalysis
and Neuroscience?
[8:36 mins.]
Neuroscience
Challenging Psychoanalysis?
[11:57 mins.] [2016]
Psychoanalysis:
Relevance to Neuropsychoanalysis
[7:31 mins.]
Instincts,
Dreams, Freud & Neuroscience
[7:06 mins.]
Interview
[21:38 mins.]
Psychoanalysis
and Neuroscience
[1:58:19 mins.] [panel presentations] [Mark Solm
in dialogue with Robert Michels who is skeptical about the usefulness
of neuroscience to validate psychoanalysis; dialogue begins at 27:46
mins., runs to 35:56 mins.] [Solms also appears at 1:25:12 to 1:28:16
mins.]
The
Conscious Id
[1:19:00 mins.] [Solm's lecture begins at 5:30
mins.] Pt2
[1:12:55 mins.] [discussion of the lecture]
The
Unconscious in Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science
[57:48 mins.] [a lecture titled, "Consciousness
by Surprise"] [2014] [poor quality video; audio is fine]
General
Principles of the Hypothetico-Deductive Approach
[2:10:58 mins.]
The
Animal Within Us
[2:07:14 mins.] [St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute]
[2015] [presentation begins at 7:26 mins.]
Mark Solms: University of Cape Town Online Course:
"What Is a Mind?"
Index
of Questions and Topics Posed for Discussion
Is
Our "Mind" the Only Mind that Exists in Our Brain?
[7:11 mins.] [Mark Solms]
Does
the Mind Control Us or Do We Control the Mind?
[7:44 mins.]
The
Role of Imagination
[5:59 mins.]
What
Do We Really Mean by "Subjectivity"?
[7:30 mins.]
Do
Thoughts Follow Feelings?
[7:21 mins.]
Changing
Our Responses to our Surroundings and Emotions
[6:56 mins.]
The
Function of Dreams
[7:37 mins.]
Definition
of "Consciousness"
[9:04 mins.]
The
Role of the Unconscious
[10:56 mins.]
Which
Came First: Conscious or Unconscious?
[11:09 mins.] [podcast]
Relationship
between Unconscious and Conscious
[5:07 mins.] [podcast]
Who
and What Am "I"?
[7:47 mins.]
Reference (Neuropsychoanalysis)
Neuropsychoanalysis
with Neuroscientist Maggie Zellener
[26:10 mins.] [audio interview] [Maggie Zellener
is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York] [Zellener talks
about her introduction to psychoanalysis; the beginning of the interview
is a rather good introduction to psychoanalysis] [possible end of
presentation in 10:07 mins.]
The
Neuroscience of Emotions
[1:02:09 mins.] [Philippe Golden]
Embodied
Happiness: The Practical Neuroscience of Positive Emotions
[1:12:50 mins.] [Rick Hanson] Pt2
[51:33 mins.]
Motivation
to Pursue Dreams and Hopes: Understanding the Brain's Reward System
[1:27:09 mins.]
Neuropsychoanalysis:
How Can We Practice Such A Transdisciplinary Enterprise?
[1:23:30 mins.]
Couch
Meets Scanner: The New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis
[56:23 mins.] [Casey Schwartz] [presentation
begins at 4:12 mins.]
Reference (Neuro-Psychoanalysis | Heather Berlin)
Who
Is Your Brain?
[15:16 mins.] [TED Talk]
Delving
Within
[1:13:52 mins. October, 2016] ["Delving
Within: The New Science of the Unconscious" featuring Steve Paulson,
Efrat Ginot, Heather Berlin, and George Makari]
What
Separates the Unconscious from the Conscious?
[3:19 mins.]
Does
Cognitive Neuroscience Research Validate Freud?
[4:32 mins.] [an excerpt from from "Delving Within:
The New Science of the Unconscious" featuring Steve Paulson, Efrat
Ginot, Heather Berlin, and George Makari]
Cognitive
Science of the Unconscious Mind
[13:30 mins.] [2012]
The
Neuroscience of the Unconscious
[45:43 mins.] [2016] [presentation at the Mind
Science Foundation]
The
Neural Basis of the Dynamic Unconscious
[1:05:38 mins.] Pt2
[1:01:38 mins.] [discussion of Heather Berlin lecture]
Heather Berlin, The Neural Basis of the Dynamic Unconscious,
13 (1) Neuropsychoanalysis 5 (2011) [online
text]
The
Brain is Our Last Frontier and Consciousness is Expanding
[18:09 mins.] [TED talk]
Who's
Really in Control? The Illusion of Free Will
[45:10 mins.]
Theories
of Consciousness: Science Goes to the Movies
[3:35 mins.]
Reference (Books on the Mind-Brain Dialogue)
The Neuropsychoanalysis Association recommends the
following books on the mind-brain dialogue:
Mark Solms & Oliver Turnbull, The Brain and
the Inner World (New York: Other Press, 2002)
Jaak Panksepp & Lucy Biven, The Archeology of
Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotion (New
York: W.W. Norton, 2912)
Norman Doidge, The Brain That Changes Itself
(New York: Penguin, 2007)
Karen Kaplan-Solms & Mark Solms, Clinical Studies
in Neuro-Psychoanalysis (New York: Other Press, 2001).
Stanislas Dehaene, Consciousness and the Brain
(New York: Penguin Books, 2014).
Aikaterini Fotopoulou, Donald Pfaff & Martin A.
Conway (eds.), From the Couch to the Lab: Trends in Psychodynamic
Neuroscience (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012)
Antonio Damasio, Self Comes to Mind (New York:
Vintage, 2012)
Reference (Critical View of Neuropsychoanalysis)
Franck Ramus, What's the Point of Neuropsychoanalysis?,
203 Brit. J. Psychiatry (2013) [online
text]
Reference (The Debate about Neuropsychoanalysis)
Anton Glasnović, Goran Babić & Vida Demarin,
Psychoanalysis Has Its Place in Modern Medicine, and Neuropsychoanalysis
Is Here to Support It, 56 Croatian Med. J. 503 (2015)
[online
text]
Mathieu Arminjon, Is Psychoanalysis a Folk Psychology?,
Frontiers in Psychology (March, 2013) [online
text]
