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Theories of Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan

Prerequisites Entry into BPsych(Hons) or PGDipPsych

This unit will introduce some of the ideas of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. It will focus on their major theoretical and clinical contributions, and through a series of readings it will investigate the history and epistemology of psychoanalysis. It will draw on both theory and practice to demonstrate the relevance of psychoanalytic theory and clinical formulations in the understanding of the nature of subjectivity. By investigating some of the discoveries and conceptualisations of the discipline, it will also explore the normal and pathological operation of our psychological system.

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