For Freud, the aim of psychoanalysis was to enable us to work, love and play with a minimum of conflict. This unit addresses what gets in the way of our being able to do that. Theoretical but practical, it is relevant to many disciplines and to everyday life. Topics include our relation to our own feelings, impulses, memories, dreams and desires ? issues focal to rumination, reflection, mindfulness, post-traumatic distress, and the kind of everyday discontent that makes people repeat old mistakes or self-medicate to forget them. It illustrates how our rage can reflect hidden ideals; the complexities of gender identity and interpersonal attraction; reveals how hidden currents in... -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Doris McIlwain
Prerequisites: 39cp
