LEARNING OBJECTIVES – Attendees will be able to:
- Describe key theoretical perspectives that conceptualize psychoanalysis as a form of moral or ethical development through examination of the implicit morality or psychoanalytic theory and practice.
- Identify and analyze the clinical implications of implicit moral processes in psychoanalytic work.
- Describe key differences between Freudian and Ferenczian psychoanalytic approaches and recognize how Ferenczi’s pioneering innovations inform contemporary clinical practice.
REFERENCES:
Ferenczi, S. (1928). The elasticity of psychoanalytic technique. In M. Balint (Ed.), Final contributions to the problems and methods of psychoanalysis. Hogarth Press.
Freud, S. (1933). New introductory lectures on psychoanalysis. In J. Strachey (Ed. & Trans.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 22). Hogarth Press.
Ghent, E. (1990). Masochism, submission, surrender—Masochism as a perversion of surrender. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 26(1), 108–136.
Lacan, J. (1992). The seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VII: The ethics of psychoanalysis, 1959–1960 (J.-A. Miller, Ed.; D. Porter, Trans.). W. W. Norton & Company. (Original work published 1959)
Lear, J. (2003). Therapeutic action: An earnest plea for irony. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 51(3), 721–742.
Loewald, H. W. (1960). On the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 41, 16–33.
McGowan, T. (2013). Enjoying what we don’t have: The political project of psychoanalysis. University of Nebraska Press.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Adam Phillips is a British Psychoanalyst, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital in London, and currently in private practice in London. He is a Visiting Professor in the English Department at the University of York and teaches two termly seminars at the University of Oxford: Ordinary Language Psychoanalysis (at Corpus Christi) and the Poet's Essay (at Keble). He was General Editor of the New Penguin Freud translations and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Professor Phillips is the author of numerous books on psychoanalysis and literature.