Theory I: Overview of Psychoanalytic Theories

Dr. Anne Erreich and guests

Week 1, 9/13: Early Freud (1893 - 1909) Dr. Steven Reisner
Charcot ,Janet, and hysteria
Topographic model
Repression vs. constitutional deficiency
Seduction theory leads to theory of unconscious fantasy
First anxiety theory: dammed up libido leads to anxiety
Psychosexual stages of libidinal development (1905, revised 1915, 1924)

Reading: Freud, S. (1910). Five lectures on psychoanalysis. Lectures 4 and 5. S.E. 11:40-55.

Week 2, 9/20: Freud’s structural theory (1923 - 1939) Dr. Steven Reisner
The ego as the seat of defense
Second anxiety theory: signal anxiety leads to repression
Narcissism

Reading: Freud, S. (1933). New introductory lectures on psychoanalysis.
S.E. 22:57-80.

Freud, S. (1923). The ego and the id. S.E. 19:13-18.

Freud, S. (1926). Inhibitions, symptoms and anxiety. S.E. 20:97-100.

Week 3, 9/27: Ego Psychology (1939- present) Dr. Anne Erreich
Hartmann, Lowenstein, Kris: focus on the ego
Adaptational point of view
Psychoanalysis as part of general psychology
Conflict free functioning, primary and secondary autonomy
Interest in development and child observation
Psychological assessment
Emphasis on defense and character analysis rather than id analysis leads
many analysts to protest loss of emphasis on depth psychology
Allows for greater interest in object relations, e.g., Mahler (separation/
individuation)

Reading: Hartmann, H. (1958). Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation. Chapter 1, pp. 3-21.

NO CLASS 10/4

Week 4, 10/11 : Klein’s object relations theory (1920’s – 1960’s) Dr. Anne Erreich
Emphasis on unconscious fantasy
Emphasis on aggression
There is no drive without an object, there is no baby without a mother
Play is the equivalent of free association
Children in analysis, like adults, do experience transference
Paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions

Reading: Segal, H. (1967). "Melanie Klein’s technique." In B.
Wolman (ed.), Psychoanalytic Technique: A Handbook for the Practicing
Psychoanalyst, Chapter 6, pp. 168-190. New York: Basic Books.

Week 5, 10/18: British Object Relations School (1940’s – present) Dr. Michael Garrett
Fairbairn rejects drive theory in favor of the primacy of object relations:
Libido is primarily object seeking rather than pleasure seeking.
Winnocott attempts to preserve aspects of drive theory while emphasizing
object relations; transitional objects.
Bowlby argues that attachment is an instinct, not anaclitic to mother’s
feeding function.
Balint, Ferenczi

Reading: Sutherland, J.D. (1980). "The British object relations theorists: Balint,
Winnicott, Fairbairn, Guntrip." JAPA, 28:829-860.

Fairbairn, W.R.D. (1963). "Synopsis of an object-relations theory of the
personality." Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 44: 224-225.

Week 6, 10/25: Kohut’s self-psychology (1960’s – present) Dr. Doris Silverman
Healthy vs pathological narcissism.
Vertical vs horizontal splits (for Kernberg, splitting replaces repression
in borderline conditions).
Empathy constitutes cure rather than the lifting of repression.
Deficit vs conflict.

Reading: Kohut, H. (1977). The Restoration of the Self, pp. 1-15, 171-198.

Week 7, 11/1: Contemporary Freudian Theory / Modern Ego Psychology (1950’s-present) Dr. Anne Erreich
Brenner’s compromise formation
Arlow’s unconscious fantasy
Paul Gray and Fred Busch: close process monitoring

Reading: Brenner, C. (1994). "The mind as conflict and compromise formation." Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis, 3: 473-488.

Week 8, 11/8: Contemporary Kleinians (1970’s – present) Dr. Michael Garrett
Rapprochment between modern ego psychology and contemporary
Kleinians (Feldman, Spillius, Joseph, etc.).

Reading: Schafer, R. (1997). "Introduction: The contemporary Kleinian of
London." In The Contemporary Kleinians of London, 1-25.

Week 9, 11/15: Attachment Theory (1960’s – present) Dr. Anne Erreich
Mary Ainsworth’s Strange Situation
Mary Main’s Adult Attachment Inventory
Peter Fonagy’s research on pre-birth prediction of children’s attachment
categories, and notion of “mentalization.”

Reading: Fonagy, P. (2001). Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis. Chapter. 1, 5-18.

Main, M. (2000). "The organized categories of infant, child and adult
attachment: flexible vs. inflexible attention under attachment-related
stress". JAPA 48:1077-1082.

NO CLASS 11/22

Week 10, 11/29: American Relational Theory (1980’s – present) Dr. Irwin Hirsch
One-person vs two-person psychology
Interpersonal vs intrapsychic
Renik, Mitchell, Hoffman

Reading: Mitchell, S. A. (1988). Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis.
pp. 41-62 and pp. 169-172.

Hoffman, I. (1991). "Discussion: Toward a social-constructivist view
of the psychoanalytic situation." Psychoanal. Dialogues. 1:88-103.

JAPA – Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
PQ- Psychoanalytic Quarterly