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PSA - Fall 2006
First Year Candidates
Evenings
Dr. Anne Erreich and Friends
This course is intended to provide an overview of the most important
theories that have arisen in the history of psychoanalysis thus
far. The overview will be chronologically organized, so that when
these theories are encountered in greater depth in subsequent courses,
candidates will have some historical and conceptual context within
which to evaluate them. The course will examine a theory in relation
to the work that preceded it, and indicate what future theoretical
developments are hinted at, or allowed for, by the theory under
examination.
Three questions will guide our discussions of any theory:
1. What perceived deficiency in a previous theory was the newer
one attempting to address?
2. If there was not a deficiency per se, what aspect was felt to
require special attention or highlighting that was neglected in
the previous theory?
3. What are the implications for technique of the replacement theory?
* = Available on P.E.P. and will not be provided to you
by the Institute.
Week 1, 9/12: 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, 9/19: 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, 9/26: 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.
Week 4, 10/3 : 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, 10/10: 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."
J. Amer. Psychol. Assn., 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, 10/17: Kohut’s self-psychology (1960’s
– present) Dr. Larry Friedman
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, 10/24: Contemporary Conflict 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, 10/31: 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, 11/7: 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." J. Amer. Psycho. Assn. 48:1077-1082.
Week 10, 11/14: 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.
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