Join me for Intro to Psychoanalysis beginning Sept 13th
12-part course meets once a month
I am happy to announce that I’ve wrapped up my presentation for the first class in my upcoming 12-part course An Introduction to Psychoanalysis! Soon I will post suggested readings. There are already a dozen people signed up. I’m so looking forward to seeing you all in September!
The course begins Saturday, September 13th. We’ll be meeting once a month on the second Saturday of each month. Classes are held via zoom. Each session will meet for 2 hours, beginning at 9AM Vancouver/ 12PM NYC/ 5PM London/ 18:00 Stockholm/ 19:00 Beirut.
I’ve outlined the first half of the year and am currently working on the first 4 classes (September 13, October 11, November 8, December 13), which will be dedicated to Freud and the evolution of the field of psychoanalysis as it developed during his lifetime.
We will be covering:
Freud’s early development and the Zeitgeist of the times.
Freud’s time working with Charcot, and the influence it had on his work.
Freud’s early work with Breuer, Studies on Hysteria (1895).
Freud’s correspondence with Fliess, and its function as a self-analysis.
Freud’s case studies (Dora, the Wolf Man, the Rat Man, Little Hans, Schreber).
Key texts including: Interpretation of Dreams (1900), Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901), Three Essays on Sexuality (1905), Totem and Taboo (1913), Instincts and their Vicissitudes (1915), A Child is Being Beaten (1919), The Uncanny (1919), Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920), The Ego and the Id (1923), Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (1926), The Question of Lay Analysis (1926), Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), Why War? (1933), among others.
Contributions of early psychoanalysts, including Jung, Ferenczi, Spielrein, Rank, Adler, and many others.
It’s going to be an extraordinary year! To join, sign up as a paid subscriber to RU Center for Psychoanalysis. It’s as simple as that!
News and upcoming events:
Coming up Friday, August 8th we have the 2nd event in the series, The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: Trans Childhoods and the Family Romance with M.E. O’Brien.
Join author M.E. O'Brien and editor Vanessa Sinclair for a thought-provoking discussion delving into "Trans Childhoods and the Family Romance," as we explore the role of fantasy among trans children, particularly of belonging elsewhere, as a form of what Freud called “the family romance.”
Using material from first person accounts by trans and gender non-conforming people with a focus on the experimental memoir of the late trans activist and writer Cecilia Gentili, to whom this book is dedicated, the essay explores the use of family romance fantasies in trans children reconciling their emergent experiences of gender with conflicting social expectations. O’Brien posits that the family romance offers a way of theorizing the subject’s encounters with the symbolic order as articulated in questions of sexual difference and biological origins.
This essay links three moments of provisional transition: in Freud’s evolving theories of childhood sexuality, in these children’s changing and conflicted knowledge of gender and sex, and in this essay’s partial theoretical contribution towards an adequate account of sexual difference. In this way, Freud’s conception of the family romance may contribute to understanding the self-articulation of trans childhood experience and the complexities of gender identification.
Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to engage with groundbreaking ideas and connect with like-minded individuals. Register now to secure your spot!
This is the second event in a series exploring the various contributions to the edited collection The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond (Routledge, 2025). Hosted by Rendering Unconscious Center for Psychoanalysis.
Everyone who is a paid subscriber here at RU Center for Psychoanalysis is automatically enrolled in my An Introduction to Psychoanalysis course and will receive all zoom invites and recordings of The Queerness of Psychoanalysis series of events.