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Freud famously said that the aim of psychoanalysis was to enable us to work, love and play with minimum conflict. So what gets in the way of us doing that? Philosophy of Psychoanalysis is an educational course presented at a third-year tertiary education level by A/Prof. Doris McIlwain. The course aims to ground you in the basics: the nature of unconscious processes, repression, sexuality, dreams, morality, grief, gender identity, drives and affects and their implications for perception, memory and creative processes, as well as for certain forms of psychopathology. Then, it considers the wider societal relevance of psychoanalysis to issues of the internet, femininity, charisma, cults, spin doctors, hypocrisy and political power. For the more clinically minded, the course covers an array of post-Freudian perspectives, including Jacques Lacan, Melanie Klein, Object Relations theory, Kohut’s self-psychology, Winnicott, and relational psychoanalysis. You should leave the course with a grasp of the kinds of psychoanalysis that are used currently in clinical contexts. 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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

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    Crystallisation of Discontent

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2021 31:51


    This is the second of two lectures that explores how our history and environment shape our personality, gender differences and self concept. A/Prof. Doris McIlwains publications are now available for free from https://www.johnsutton.net/doris-mcilwains-writings/ Thanks for Prof. John Sutton. Check it out!There's a new psychoanalysis podcast in town! Check out Three Associating where ever you find your podcasts. https://www.threeassociating.com/ 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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    Does Personality Change?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2021 49:07


    How does our history and environment shape our personality? And is this stable? A/Prof. Doris McIlwains publications are now available for free from https://www.johnsutton.net/doris-mcilwains-writings/ Thanks for Prof. John Sutton. Check it out!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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    Affect and Individual Differences

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2021 36:23


    This is the second of two lectures that address: Memory, narrative therapy, important life events, creativity, personality, mental flexibility, positive and negative affect, cognitive flexibility, cognitive arousal, emotions, coping strategies, teamwork, Neuroplasticity, resilience, curiosity and more!A/Prof. Doris McIlwains publications are now available for free from https://www.johnsutton.net/doris-mcilwains-writings/ Thanks for Prof. John Sutton. Check it out!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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    Peak Experiences, Memory and Emotions

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2021 47:10


    This is the first of two lectures that address: Memory, narrative therapy, important life events, creativity, personality, mental flexibility, positive and negative affect, cognitive flexibility, cognitive arousal, emotions, coping strategies, teamwork, neuroplasticity, resilience, curiosity and moreA/Prof. Doris McIlwains publications are now available for free from https://www.johnsutton.net/doris-mcilwains-writings/ Thanks for Prof. John Sutton. Check it out!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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    Mental Time Travel: Emotion and Memory

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2021 39:31


    What is the connection between personality and memory? This lecture is the second of two that talks about: Cultural storytelling, personal myths, narratives and the self,  schemas, family remembering, narrative therapy, empathic listening, memory, trauma, emotional remembering and more.A/Prof. Doris McIlwains publications are now available for free from https://www.johnsutton.net/doris-mcilwains-writings/ Thanks for Prof. John Sutton. Check it out!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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    Telling Stories: Cultural Scaffolding

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2021 48:38


    This lecture is the first of two that talks about: Cultural storytelling, personal myths, narratives and the self,  schemas, family remembering, narrative therapy, empathic listening, memory, trauma, emotional remembering and more. A/Prof. Doris McIlwains publications are now available for free from https://www.johnsutton.net/doris-mcilwains-writings/ Thanks for Prof. John Sutton. Check it out!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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    Narcissism and Shame: Fear of Being Found Wanting

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2021 46:36


    This lecture is the second of two lectures that address: Personality disorders, parental attunement, coping mechanisms, defence mechanisms, the development of disorders, the dark triad, narcissism, psychopathy, shame and more.A/Prof. Doris McIlwains publications are now available for free from https://www.johnsutton.net/doris-mcilwains-writings/ Thanks for Prof. John Sutton. Check it out!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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    Tracing a Personality Style: The Dark Triad

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2021 51:32


    What creates a psychopath? What about a narcissist ? This lecture is the first of two that address: Personality disorders, coping mechanisms, defence mechanisms, the development of disorders, the dark triad and more.A/Prof. Doris McIlwain's publications are now available for free from https://www.johnsutton.net/doris-mcilwains-writings/ Thanks for Prof. John Sutton. Check it out!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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    Defences and Beliefs

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2021 40:12


    This lecture is the second of two that address: Clinical inference, Personality assessment, transference, psychopathy, empathy, affect, dark triad, psychoanalytic diagnosis, Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP) and more.A/Prof. Doris McIlwain's publications are now available for free from https://www.johnsutton.net/doris-mcilwains-writings/ Thanks for Prof. John Sutton. Check it out!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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    Transference, Insight and Inference

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2021 46:10


    This lecture is the first of two that address: Clinical inference, Personality assessment, transference, gestalt, dreams, fantasies, psychoanalysis, emotions, Freud, DSM-V, Validity, Reliability, traits, empathy and moreA/Prof. Doris McIlwain's publications are now available for free from https://www.johnsutton.net/doris-mcilwains-writings/ Thanks for Prof. John Sutton. Check it out! 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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    The Self, the World and Others

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2021 50:08


    This lecture is the second 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 moreA/Prof. Doris McIlwain's publications are now available for free from https://www.johnsutton.net/doris-mcilwains-writings/ Thanks for Prof. John Sutton. Check it out!  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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    Cascading Constraints of Personality Development

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2021 42:41


    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 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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen. 

    How to let the Data speak: Measuring Personality

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2021 56:20


    This lecture is the second 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. 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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen. 

    Personality in Research: Do numbers equal science?

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2021 40:14


    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. 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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen. 

    Cults, Culture and Charisma

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2021 56:20


    An introduction to personality. This lecture addresses: Cults, Charisma, Culture, Personality, the Big Five, Developmental psychology, childhood, traits, the Dark Triad, research, methodology, factor analysis 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 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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen. 

    Season 2! Personality!

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2021 1:55


    Season 2 of Philosophy of Psychoanalysis is coming soon! In this lecture series A/Prof McIlwain addresses the Psychology of Personality from a psychoanalytic perspective. 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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.  

    BONUS: Progressive Muscle Relaxation Meditation

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2020 16:05


    A relaxation meditation following the Progressive Muscle Relaxation strategy to help you shake off the stress of the day. Spoken by A/Prof. Doris McIlwain. 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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    BONUS: Dreams

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2020 20:19


    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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    Transitional Relatedness and Art

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2020 41:10


    How does our history impact our creative work? This is the second lecture that addresses: 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 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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    Creativity and Resilience

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2020 43:00


    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 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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    Developing a False Self: Emotional Control

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2020 37:29


    Affective ‘acting' and emotional labour and the costs of emotional control. This is the second lecture that addresses: Facework, Lambie and Marcel's picture of emotion, from biological process to psychological motive, basic affects, trauma and facial expression, uses of facework, work - Dejours and work, 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 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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    Facework and Therapy

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2020 36:14


    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 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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    Staying Present: Awareness and Transference

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2020 48:25


    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@gmail.com Lecturer: Associate Professor Doris McIlwain. Theme song creator: Rose Mackenzie-Peterson. Logo creator: Campbell Henderson. https://www.campbellhenderson.com/artworkThanks 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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    Working with Transference: Psychoanalytic Practice

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2020 50:14


    Transference as therapeutic resistance. Linking present symptoms with past experiences. This lecture is the first 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@gmail.com Lecturer: Associate Professor Doris McIlwain. Theme song creator: Rose Mackenzie-Peterson. Logo creator: Campbell Henderson. https://www.campbellhenderson.com/artworkThanks 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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    The Porous Self: To Love and Mourn

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2020 37:18


    Object relations in loss. This lecture is the second 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 pathological interconnectedness; Implications of this: for wellbeing, self-harm, mourning and theoretically; How to work with this cross-culturally. Contact Email: philosophyofpsychoanalysis@gmail.com Lecturer: Associate Professor Doris McIlwain. Theme song creator: Rose Mackenzie-Peterson. Logo creator: Campbell Henderson. https://www.campbellhenderson.com/artworkThanks 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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    Reality Testing: Love and Loss

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2020 47:22


    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 pathological interconnectedness; Implications of this: for wellbeing, self-harm, mourning and theoretically; How to work with this cross-culturally. Contact Email: philosophyofpsychoanalysis@gmail.com Lecturer: Associate Professor Doris McIlwain. Theme song creator: Rose Mackenzie-Peterson. Logo creator: Campbell Henderson. https://www.campbellhenderson.com/artworkThanks 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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    The Oedipus Complex

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2020 43:10


    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 course creator, died of cancer in 2015. This podcast is created by her family and friends, with hopes that her curiosity, joy and intellectual playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    Morality and Gender: The Superego and the Self

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2020 34:24


    How does our family shape our sense of morality and gender? This lecture is the first 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 course creator, died of cancer in 2015. This podcast is created by her family and friends, with hopes that her curiosity, joy and intellectual playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    Attachment, Perversion and Online Presence

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2020 39:21


    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 environment, therapeutic capacity of internet. 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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    Bodies and Words: Biology vs. Relationship

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2020 48:44


    How we are shaped by our biological drives, relationships, culture and language. This lecture is the first of two that address; Role of the body in psychoanalysis - language, words and the internet, colonising the body, necessity of drives in understanding the body, object relations theory, Stern and attunement, Guntrip, drives 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 environment, therapeutic capacity of internet. 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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    Mapping Out the Terrain of the Unconscious

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2020 44:46


    Knowing and not knowing: Exploring the structure and conditions of unconscious processes. This lecture is the second 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: 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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    Motivated Unknowing: Repression with a Hint of Dissociation

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2020 48:19


    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: philosophyofpsychoanalysis@gmail.com Lecturer: Associate Professor Doris McIlwain. Theme song creator: Rose Mackenzie-Peterson. Logo creator: Campbell Henderson. https://www.campbellhenderson.com/artwork, https://www.instagram.com/spectrumsupreme/. 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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    In You, Out There: Culture and Conflict

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2020 47:37


    How socialisation shapes our relationship to the world and our knowledge of ourselves. This lecture addresses: attachment and neoteny, ingroup/outgroup, social conflict, internalisation of rules of social order/morality, surplus repression, conflict at core, executive function of ego, affective dams, cultural impossibility of particular desires and triggering of defences, affects and anxiety; Suppression and Repression; Dreamwork and Interpretation. Contact Email: philosophyofpsychoanalysis@gmail.com Lecturer: Associate Professor Doris McIlwain Producer: Nina McIlwain Theme song: Rose Mackenzie-Peterson Artwork: Campbell Henderson https://www.campbellhenderson.com/artwork Thanks to Dr. Andrew Geeves and to 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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    Found Wanting: Drives and Affects

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2020 44:44


    A psychoanalytic understanding of motivation. This lecture addresses: Being wanters and knowers; Drives - definitions, attributes, erotogenic zones; Affects - Tomkins, Panksepp & Solms, Damasio, vs emotions. Contact Email: philosophyofpsychoanalysis@gmail.com Lecturer: Associate Professor Doris McIlwain Producer: Nina McIlwain Theme song: Rose Mackenzie-Peterson Artwork: Campbell Henderson https://www.campbellhenderson.com/artwork Thanks to Dr. Andrew Geeves and to 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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    Hiding in Plain Sight: Introducing Psychoanalysis

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2020 26:38


    How we are strangers to ourselves. This lecture addresses the questions raised by psychoanalysis; the movement of Freud's thought over time; symptoms, repression and trauma; dreams; and psychoanalytic genres. Contact Email: philosophyofpsychoanalysis@gmail.com Lecturer: Associate Professor Doris McIlwain Producer: Nina McIlwain Theme song: Rose Mackenzie-Peterson Artwork: Campbell Henderson https://www.campbellhenderson.com/artwork Thanks to Dr. Andrew Geeves and to 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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

    Introducing Philosophy of Psychoanalysis

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2020 2:29


    Freud famously said that the aim of psychoanalysis was to enable us to work, love and play with minimum conflict. So what gets in the way of us doing that? Philosophy of Psychoanalysis is an educational course presented at a third-year tertiary education level by A/Prof. Doris McIlwain. The course aims to ground you in the basics: the nature of unconscious processes, repression, sexuality, dreams, morality, grief, gender identity, drives and affects and their implications for perception, memory and creative processes, as well as for certain forms of psychopathology. Then, it considers the wider societal relevance of psychoanalysis to issues of the internet, femininity, charisma, cults, spin doctors, hypocrisy and political power. For the more clinically minded, the course covers an array of post-Freudian perspectives, including Jacques Lacan, Melanie Klein, Object Relations theory, Kohut’s self-psychology, Winnicott, and relational psychoanalysis. You should leave the course with a grasp of the kinds of psychoanalysis that are used currently in clinical contexts. 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 playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen. Contact Email: philosophyofpsychoanalysis@gmail.com Lecturer: Associate Professor Doris McIlwain Producer: Nina McIlwain Theme song: Rose Mackenzie-Peterson Artwork: Campbell Henderson https://www.campbellhenderson.com/artwork Thanks to Dr. Andrew Geeves and to Professor John Sutton for all their hard work.

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