What is Primal Repression?
Final part of a short series of videos introducing the concept of repression in psychoanalysis. In this bonus video, we look at the concept of ‘primal’ repression, tracing the...
Freud’s Unconscious – The Psychoanalysis of a Dream, and its Dreamer
A story about the origins of psychoanalysis, and of its creator Sigmund Freud. Taking Freud as our example to show how psychoanalysis works – presenting the dream as a...
Freud’s Problems – 1. Psychology
A new series of short videos on ‘Freud’s Problems’. Not so much problems with Freud as problems that Freud was trying to solve. Here we look at what interests...
The Case of Sigmund Freud
This documentary was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the autumn of 2000 to mark the centenary of Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams. As Freud scholars often remind us,...
Reading ‘The Unconscious’
The Unconscious 1915 Standard Edition Volume XIV Before going into depth on this important paper we can note the fact that at the very outset Freud differentiates between two...
Reading ‘On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love
On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love (Contributions to the Psychology of Love II) 1912 Standard Edition Volume XI Despite the huge volume of psychoanalytic...
Reading ‘Further Remarks on the Neuro-Psychoses of Defence’
Further Remarks on the Neuro-Psychoses of Defence 1896 Standard Edition Volume III The central thesis of the 1894 paper The Neuro-Psychoses of Defence restated: that it is possible to distinguish...
Reading ‘The Neuro-Psychoses of Defence’
The Neuro-Psychoses of Defence 1894 Standard Edition Volume III Freud’s point of departure in this paper is the contemporary agreement between he, Breuer and Janet, on the idea that...
Reading the Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis 1915 – 1916 SE Volume XVI As the purpose of these lectures is to introduce the reader to psychoanalytic theory, there is no need to...