This is the first of two lectures that address: Resilience, ego, loss of control and over-control, regression, creativity and regression, phantasy and renunciation, the artist vs the neurotic, Kris's account of regression and creativity - transitional objects and relatedness, criticism, knafo and regression in the service of creativity. Contact Email: philosophyofpsychoanalysis@gmail.com Lecturer: Associate Professor Doris McIlwain. Theme song creator: Rose Mackenzie-Peterson. Logo creator: Campbell Henderson. https://www.campbellhenderson.com/artwork Thanks to Dr. Andrew Geeves and Professor ..read more

How can we stay aware of ourselves in relational encounters? This lecture is the second of two that address: Transference - phenomenology, definition, origin, content, therapist role, signs of transference, how to handle/not handle transference, countertransference; Attunement; Transitional objects; Barriers to being present (shame, dissociation); Sublimation; Self-reflective awareness; Mindfulness & psychoanalysis - Buddhism & psychoanalysis, tolerating uncertainty, Freud's notion of even hovering, neutrality and spaciousness with facework. Contact Email: philosophyofpsychoanalysis@gm ..read more

How do affects capture your body and behaviours? This is the first lecture that addresses: Facework - definition, Lambie and Marcel's picture of emotion, from biological process to psychological motive (theory of motivation), basic affects (and taking them apart in Facework), trauma and facial expression (Bonnano et al), uses of facework; Work - Dejours and work; Hochschild and emotional labour; Costs of facework; Facework and the development of a false self?; Hypocrisy. Contact Email: philosophyofpsychoanalysis@gmail.com Lecturer: Associate Professor Doris McIlwain. Theme song creator: Rose M ..read more

This lecture is the first of two that address: Qualitative, Quantitative, Research, Subjectivity, Objectivity, the Big Five, Psychological research, Personality, Methodology, Disconfirmation, Ideographic, Nomothetic, Statistics, Dark Triad, Traits, Empathy, Attachment, Trauma, Childhood, Neuropsychology, Bypassing shame, Adaption, Inhibition, Motives, Sexuality and more. Contact Email: philosophyofpsychoanalysis@gmail.com Lecturer: Associate Professor Doris McIlwain. Theme song creator: Rose Mackenzie-Peterson. Logo creator: Campbell Henderson. https://www.campbellhenderson.com/artwork. Thank ..read more

This lecture is the first of two that address: Personality development, early life experiences, complex trauma, personality disorders, schemas, subpersonal, culture, unconscious, drives, affects, attachment, self and other distinctions, trust, empathy, attunement and more. Contact Email: philosophyofpsychoanalysis@gmail.com Lecturer: Associate Professor Doris McIlwain. Theme song creator: Rose Mackenzie-Peterson. Logo creator: Campbell Henderson. https://www.campbellhenderson.com/artwork. Thanks to Dr. Andrew Geeves and Professor John Sutton for all their hard work. Sadly A/Prof. Doris McIlwa ..read more

Do we leave the body at the screen? The pleasure of representation and the representation of pleasure. This lecture is the second of two that address; Role of the body in psychoanalysis - language runs away with us, words and the internet, colonising the body, necessity of drives in understanding the body, object relations theory, Stern and attunement, Guntrip, drive AND relationships matter; Perversion - breaking with reality; Leaving the body at the screen - self and body, freedoms and constraints of online interaction, perversion and the internet, consistency of attachment in online environ ..read more

Mourning and Love as Revelation. How does mourning reveal ourselves and our lost love to us? This lecture is the first of two that address: Ego as precipitate of identifications, Kohut's self-psychology; Freud's view of mourning; Melancholia; Freud’s diagnostic use of mourning - reality testing, identification, intorjection; Contextualising Frued's writing on mourning - usefulness of ego-instincts; An extended sense of self  & importance of others in the formation of feeling - extended sense of self, interpersonal impact on emotion experience (Bollas's unthought known), healthy and pa ..read more

Who is the ‘self’? Understanding the things we push down. This lecture is the first of two that address; unconscious mental states, secondary repression, mechanics of secondary repression (conflict, cleaving of thought & affect), the paradox of repression, the problem of the censor (Sartre) and Doris's solution to this via an anxious psychic pistol shot, motivations for repression (attitudes, cultural norms), primal repression, content and maintenance of repression, repression vs suppression, Freud's Epistemic vs Systemic notions of the UCS, and lifting repression. Contact Email: philosoph ..read more

This lecture is the second of two that address: Morality - Freud's view, Oedipus complex (ambivalent love, superego, male and female trajectory, castration complex, penis envy, identification), weaknesses of Freud's view, what to retain from the Oedipus complex. Contact Email: philosophyofpsychoanalysis@gmail.com Lecturer: Associate Professor Doris McIlwain. Theme song creator: Rose Mackenzie-Peterson. Logo creator: Campbell Henderson. https://www.campbellhenderson.com/artwork Thanks to Dr. Andrew Geeves and Professor John Sutton for all their hard work. Sadly A/Prof. Doris McIlwain, the cours ..read more

The final instalment of lecture content for the podcast. A/Prof McIlwain explores the Freudian interpretation of dreams. Contact Email: philosophyofpsychoanalysis@gmail.com Lecturer: Associate Professor Doris McIlwain. Theme song creator: Rose Mackenzie-Peterson. Logo creator: Campbell Henderson. https://www.campbellhenderson.com/artwork Thanks to Dr. Andrew Geeves and Professor John Sutton for all their hard work. Sadly A/Prof. Doris McIlwain, the course creator, died of cancer in 2015. This podcast is created by her family and friends, with hopes that her curiosity, joy and intellectual play ..read more