Spring 2010
PTY-A - 1st Year

Francoise Graf , Ph.D.

*=Available on PEP and will not be provided by Institute Office

I – INFANTILE SEXUALITY AND PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT

February 23, 2010  - Introduction to the course and Freud’s basic text

*Freud, S. (1905) Infantile Sexuality.  In. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Standard Edition, London, Hogarth Press, pp 173-206.

March 2nd, 2010  - Orality

*Freud, A. (1946) The Psychoanalytic Study of Infantile Feeding Disturbances, The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 2, pp119-132.

(if available, Spitz’s film on hospitalism: grief – a peril in infancy).

Optional: Tyson, P, and Tyson R (1990), The Stages of Psychosexual Development, in Psychoanalytic Theories of Development, Yale University Press, pp 51-65.

March 9th, 2010 – Anal and Phallic-Narcissistic Phase

*Freud, S. (1917) On Transformations of Instinct as Exemplified in Anal Erotism, Standard Edition, Volume XVII, London, Hogarth Press, pp 125-133

*Freud, S. (1908) Character and anal erotism, SE, 9, pp. 169-175.

*Edgcumbe R., Burgner, M. (1975), The Phallic-Narcissistic Phase – A Differentiation between Preoedipal and Oedipal Aspects of Phallic Development, Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 30, pp 161-180.

March 16th, 2010 – Oedipus Complex and it’s Dissolution

*Freud, S. (1924), The Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex, SE, 19, 173-182

*Loewald, H. (1985) Oedipus Complex and Development of the Self, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 54, pp435-443.

II. THE ROLE OF THE CARETAKER AND DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY OBJECT RELATIONS

 April 6th, 2010 - The role of the caretaker

*Winnicott, D.W. (1956), Primary Maternal Preoccupation, in Through Paediatrics to Psycho-Analysis, pp300-305.

*Winnicott, D.W. (1971), Mirror-role of Mother and Family in Child Development, in Playing and Reality,  London, Tavistock publications,  pp111-118.

Optional:
*Benedek, T. (1959), Parenthood as a Developmental Phase – A Contribution to the Libido Theory, in JAPA, 7, pp. 389-417

 April 13th, 2010 – Early Object Relations – Playing (Winnicott)

 *Winnicott, D.W. (1951), Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena, in Through Paediatrics to Psycho-Analysis, pp229-242.

*Winnicott, D.W. (1958), The Capacity to be Alone, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 39, pp416-420

*Winnicott, D.W. ((1968), Playing: It’s Theoretical Status in the Clinical Situation, in The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 49, pp. 591-599

April 20, 2010  -    Separation and Individuation (Mahler)

*Mahler, M. (1972), On the First Three Sub-phases of the Separation-Individuation Process, in International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 53, pp.333-338.

*Mahler, M., la Pierriere K., (1965), Mother-Child Interaction During Separation-Individuation, in Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 34, pp 483-498.

April 27, 2010  -  Mahler’s Movie and further discussion on topic

May 4, 2010 - Attachment Theory and the Strange Situation (Bowlby and Ainsworth)

*Main, M. (2000), The Organized Categories of Infant, Child and Adult Attachment, in Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 48, 1058-1082.

Optional:  *Bowlby, J. (1958), On the Nature of the Child’s Tie to his Mother, in The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 39, pp.350-373.

Hopefully, a movie showing the Strange Situation and various reactions exemplifying the
Attachment Categories.

May 11, 2010 –  Mentalization and Consequences of Intersubjectivity in Adulthood

Fonagy P., Target M. (1997), Attachment and Reflective Function: Their Role in Self-Organization, in Development and Psychopathology, 9, pp. 677-699.

Optional: *Fonagy, P., Target, M. (1998), Mentalization and the Changing Aims of Child Psychoanalysis, in Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 8, pp. 87-114.