One month til Intro to Psychoanalysis continues!
Next class Saturday, February 7th
Looking forward to seeing you all for the next installment of An Introduction to Psychoanalysis on Saturday, February 7th. We’ll meet for 2 hours online at 9AM Vancouver/ 12PM noon NYC/ 5PM London/ 18:00 Stockholm/ 19:00 Beirut. Class will be recorded and archived here at Substack, so don’t worry if you aren’t able to attend live.
We’ll be discussing the work of early student of Freud, Otto Rank, as well as early collaborator Sándor Ferenczi. We’ll also take a look at Freud’s paper on the Family Romance and his case studies, Little Hans and The Rat Man, all from 1909. Readings can be found in the Google Drive (link below the paywall).
Please note: you are not expected to read everything. Some of the papers are long. I’m providing them for your reference and will cover the major points in class.
In the meantime, you may catch up with past CLASSES HERE, including M.E. O’Brien’s reading of Freud’s Family Romance through a contemporary trans-affirming lens.
Image: Sigmund Freud and members of the Secret Committee – Otto Rank, Karl Abraham, Max Eitingon, Ernest Jones, Sándor Ferenczi, and Hans Sachs, 1922.
News and upcoming events:
Next up, we have Mary Wild presenting her work on Lynchian Women on David Lynch’s birthday, Tuesday, January 20th at 5PM London (9AM Vancouver / 12 NYC / 18:00 Stockholm / 19:00 Beirut). We will be meeting for 2 hours. This event will be recorded and available for everyone who registers.
Then on Wednesday, February 18th, we have Mikita Brottman presenting the follow up to her wonderful lecture Phantoms of the Clinic: From Thought-transference to Projective Identification. This time she’ll be presenting Images from the Id: The Strange World of Psychic Photographer Ted Serios. We’ll be meeting for 90 minutes at 11AM Baltimore (8AM San Francisco/ 4PM London/ 17:00 Berlin/ 18:00 Beirut). This event will be recorded and available for everyone who registers.
Don’t forget to sign up for Luke Ali Manzarpour’s peer supervision group, which will be meeting once a month starting in February. Members will take turns presenting cases, as we think through the material together, integrating the socio-political into the clinical work. Various texts may also be discussed. If you’re interested in joining us, please feel free to get in touch with Luke directly at: lukemanz [AT] gmail [DOT] com
If you’re in London, I’ll be at the Freud Museum in-person Wednesday, February 25th with my husband Carl Abrahamsson for Surreal Secrets of the Psyche: The Creative Zeitgeist of Psychoanalysis, Film and the Avant-Garde. Join us if you’re in town!
Below is a list of scheduled events for 2026 thus far. I have created a #schedule thread in the Discord (link below the paywall), which I will keep up to date and will continue to update you all through regular Substack announcements.
Please feel free to be in touch anytime. Don’t hesitate to reach out. I look forward to seeing you all soon!
