30 September 2008
17 March 2009
Fee: £35 per seminar
Venue: Tavistock Centre, London
In this new series of reading seminars for qualified child and adult psychotherapists, eminent child psychotherapists and psychoanalysts introduce a paper by Freud of particular interest to them, leading into a discussion with participants.
Tuesday 30 September 2008, 6.30 - 8.30pm
Dora and Freud’s Dreaming: Exploring ‘Fragments of an analysis of a case of hysteria’ (1905)
Introduced by Meira Likierman, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Child and Family Department, Tavistock Clinic
Dora was aged between 17 and 18 when she came to Freud and the events that brought her there began when she was 14. Innumerable papers have been written about this case, mostly by adult psychoanalysts interested in Freud's development as a thinker. Although Freud has been criticised for his over-masculine reading of Dora, her adolescence is not normally put at the centre of an exploration. It would be interesting to see what happens when the typical dreams of adolescence collide with Freud's theory of dreams.
Tuesday 17 March 2009, 6.30 - 8.30pm
Little Hans
Introduced by Valli Kohon, Psychoanalyst and Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Portman Clinic
Little Hans was the first case of child analysis proper, even though conducted by Freud in an unorthodox manner, through Hans’s father. Freud says little about his technique concerning this case but its importance lies in Freud’s interest in taking seriously what a child might communicate and convey about mental states, no matter how unlikely or absurd they might appear - as Freud said “…neurosis never says anything foolish”. Little Hans was what Peter Gay calls a “copious anthology of psychoanalytic propositions put forward by Freud in the elaboration of subsequent theories”, and it illustrates many of the points made in the Three Essays. The theory of the Oedipus Complex was undoubtedly inspired in its development by Freud’s illuminated receptivity to Hans’ anxieties and phobias.
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Vicky Harrison
020 8938 2548
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