PSA – 2nd Year
Fall 2007
8:30 A.M. – 9:50 A.M

 *=Available on PEP and won’t be provided by the Institute

Course Objective: To Understand the Development of Theory within the “Ego Psychology” School in the first 3 ½ decades after Freud’s Structural Theory was Elaborated.

Sept. 8 Week 1:
Waelder, R. (1930)   “The Principle of Multiple Function:  Observations on Overdetermination” in Selected Papers of Robert Waelder,  ed. Guttman, S.  New York: International Universities Press (1976).  pp. 68-83.
*Also in The Psychoanalytic Quarterly 1936 vol. 5 p. 45 (under “Walder” in PEP)

Excerpts from Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety on “anxiety”

Freud, A. (1936) The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense:  The Writings of Anna Freud, Vol. 2.  I.U.P., 1966, Chapter I.        
           
Sept. 15 Week 2:
Freud, A. (1936) The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense:  The Writings of Anna Freud, Vol. 2.  I.U.P., 1966, Part I (in its entirety).

 One Week Off

Sept. 29 Week 3:
Freud, A. (1936) The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense:  The Writings of Anna Freud, Vol. 2.  I.U.P., 1966 Part II-III.

Oct. 6 Week 4:
Freud, A. (1936) The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense:  The Writings of Anna Freud, Vol. 2.  I.U.P., 1966 Part IV.

Oct. 13 Week 5: Hartmann: Conflict Free Sphere
Hartmann, H. (1939). Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation, IUP 1953,  Ch. 1. 

Optional: Stein’s “Cliff Notes for chapter 1”

Oct. 20 Week 6: Hartmann: Adaptation; New View of Development
Hartmann, H. (1939)  Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation, IUP 1953  Excerpts Ch. 2-5,9.

*Shaw, R.R. (1989). Hartmann on Adaptation: An Incomparable or Incomprehensible Legacy?
Psychoanal Q., 58:592-611.

Optional: Stein’s “Cliff Notes for chapters 2-4.

Oct. 27 week 7: Hartmann: Organization of the Mind: Reason and Unreason
Hartmann, H. (1939)  Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation, IUP 1953  Excerpts Ch. 5-8.

*Friedman, L. (1989). Hartmann's "Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation". Psychoanal Q., 58:526-550.

 Nov. 3 Week 8:
Drives: What is Aggression?           
*Hartmann, H., Kris, E., Loewenstein, R. (1949)    Notes on the Theory of Aggression. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 3:9-34.

Nov. 10 week 9:
Superego: What is a Superego?
*Schafer, R. (1960). “The Loving and Beloved Superego in Freud’s Structural Theory.”  Psychoanalytic Study of the Child  15:163-188.

Loewenstein, R. (1966).  “On the Theory of the Superego: A Discussion.”  In Psychoanalysis: A General Psychology  NY:IUP 298-314. 

Nov. 17 Week 10:
Arlow, J. and C. Brenner.  Psychoanalytic Concepts and the Structural Theory. pp. 71-102.