Revisiting Freud: Guided Close Reading of Freud’s Central Texts for Senior Analysts

Presented by Rachel Blass

15 CEUs
Dates: January 13, 20, 27; February 3, 10, 24, March 3. 10. 17, 24, 31; April 28; May 5, 12, 19 , 2025
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST
Fee: $1440

ABSTRACT

This seminar is based on the in-depth reading and analysis of complete texts of Freud, during weekly 1-hour long meetings, throughout the year and is conceived of as a long-term ongoing seminar. 

The meetings will be led by Rachel Blass who will help bring out the meanings and significance of Freud’s ideas and place them in the context of the development his thinking over the years and its relevance to contemporary psychoanalysis. The seminar is intended for senior analysts, familiar with Freud’s writings from the start of their professional development, but who wish to revisit them to deepen their understanding from new perspectives and in light of their advanced experience. 

The meetings will be held on Zoom, midday (ET) and will be recorded and made available for participants who were unable to attend or seek further study. 

This term (and in several terms to come) we will continue to follow the gradual development of Freud’s thinking on object relations and their internalization in the mind. We will focus on some of Freud’s most important texts published between 1911 and 1923. Last terms we covered his papers on Schreber, narcissism and mourning , Thoughts for the Times on War and Death and  Totem and Taboo. This coming term we will focus on  Group Psychology and the Analysis of the E go (1921) and Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920).

Course Objectives:
(1) In-depth understanding of Freud’s writings
(2) Developing a capacity to read other Freud’s texts
(3) Deepening the understanding of the foundations of psychoanalytic thinking and its evolution, particularly regarding Object Relations
(4) Appreciation of Freud’s relevance to contemporary clinical work.
Readings
VOLUME EIGHTEEN
BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE (1920)   pp. 1-65
GROUP PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ANALYSIS OF THE EGO (1921)     (selected pages) pp.  65-145

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