Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Crystallisation of Discontent
10 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second of two lectures that explores how our history and environment shape our personality, gender differences and self concept. A/Prof. D...
Does Personality Change?
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How does our history and environment shape our personality? And is this stable? A/Prof. Doris McIlwains publications are now available for free from h...
Affect and Individual Differences
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second of two lectures that address: Memory, narrative therapy, important life events, creativity, personality, mental flexibility, positi...
Peak Experiences, Memory and Emotions
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first of two lectures that address: Memory, narrative therapy, important life events, creativity, personality, mental flexibility, positiv...
Mental Time Travel: Emotion and Memory
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is the connection between personality and memory? This lecture is the second of two that talks about: Cultural storytelling, personal myths, narr...
Telling Stories: Cultural Scaffolding
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture is the first of two that talks about: Cultural storytelling, personal myths, narratives and the self, schemas, family remembering, narr...
Narcissism and Shame: Fear of Being Found Wanting
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture is the second of two lectures that address: Personality disorders, parental attunement, coping mechanisms, defence mechanisms, the develo...
Tracing a Personality Style: The Dark Triad
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What creates a psychopath? What about a narcissist ? This lecture is the first of two that address: Personality disorders, coping mechanisms, defence ...
Defences and Beliefs
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture is the second of two that address: Clinical inference, Personality assessment, transference, psychopathy, empathy, affect, dark triad, ps...
Transference, Insight and Inference
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture is the first of two that address: Clinical inference, Personality assessment, transference, gestalt, dreams, fantasies, psychoanalysis, e...
The Self, the World and Others
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture is the second of two that address: Personality development, early life experiences, complex trauma, personality disorders, schemas, subpe...
Cascading Constraints of Personality Development
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture is the first of two that address: Personality development, early life experiences, complex trauma, personality disorders, schemas, subper...
How to let the Data speak: Measuring Personality
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture is the second of two that address: Qualitative, Quantitative, Research, Subjectivity, Objectivity, the Big Five, Psychological research, ...
Personality in Research: Do numbers equal science?
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture is the first of two that address: Qualitative, Quantitative, Research, Subjectivity, Objectivity, the Big Five, Psychological research, P...
Cults, Culture and Charisma
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An introduction to personality. This lecture addresses: Cults, Charisma, Culture, Personality, the Big Five, Developmental psychology, childhood, trai...
Season 2! Personality!
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Season 2 of Philosophy of Psychoanalysis is coming soon! In this lecture series A/Prof McIlwain addresses the Psychology of Personality from a psychoa...
BONUS: Progressive Muscle Relaxation Meditation
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A relaxation meditation following the Progressive Muscle Relaxation strategy to help you shake off the stress of the day. Spoken by A/Prof. Doris McIl...
BONUS: Dreams
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The final instalment of lecture content for the podcast. A/Prof McIlwain explores the Freudian interpretation of dreams. Contact Email: philosophyofps...
Transitional Relatedness and Art
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How does our history impact our creative work? This is the second lecture that addresses: Resilience, ego, loss of control and over-control, regressio...
Creativity and Resilience
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first of two lectures that address: Resilience, ego, loss of control and over-control, regression, creativity and regression, phantasy and...
Developing a False Self: Emotional Control
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Affective ‘acting' and emotional labour and the costs of emotional control. This is the second lecture that addresses: Facework, Lambie and Mar...
Facework and Therapy
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do affects capture your body and behaviours? This is the first lecture that addresses: Facework - definition, Lambie and Marcel's picture of ...
Staying Present: Awareness and Transference
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can we stay aware of ourselves in relational encounters? This lecture is the second of two that address: Transference - phenomenology, definition,...
Working with Transference: Psychoanalytic Practice
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Transference as therapeutic resistance. Linking present symptoms with past experiences. This lecture is the first of two that address: Transference - ...
The Porous Self: To Love and Mourn
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Object relations in loss. This lecture is the second of two that address: Ego as precipitate of identifications, Kohut's self-psychology; Freud&a...
Reality Testing: Love and Loss
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 pre...
The Oedipus Complex
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture is the second of two that address: Morality - Freud's view, Oedipus complex (ambivalent love, superego, male and female trajectory, ...
Morality and Gender: The Superego and the Self
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 compl...
Attachment, Perversion and Online Presence
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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;...
Bodies and Words: Biology vs. Relationship
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ps...
Mapping Out the Terrain of the Unconscious
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Knowing and not knowing: Exploring the structure and conditions of unconscious processes. This lecture is the second of two that address; unconscious ...
Motivated Unknowing: Repression with a Hint of Dissociation
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Who is the ‘self’? Understanding the things we push down. This lecture is the first of two that address; unconscious mental states, secondary repr...
In You, Out There: Culture and Conflict
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How socialisation shapes our relationship to the world and our knowledge of ourselves. This lecture addresses: attachment and neoteny, ingroup/outgrou...
Found Wanting: Drives and Affects
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A psychoanalytic understanding of motivation. This lecture addresses: Being wanters and knowers; Drives - definitions, attributes, erotogenic zones; A...
Hiding in Plain Sight: Introducing Psychoanalysis
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How we are strangers to ourselves. This lecture addresses the questions raised by psychoanalysis; the movement of Freud's thought over time; symp...
Introducing Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...