Psychoanalytic theories

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This doctoral level course serves as an in depth introduction to the work of Sigmund Freud, using primary source material as well as supplemental texts. It will trace the development of the tenets of Freudian theory (i.e. the centrality of instincts and the hegemony of internal as opposed to external determinants of experience, the discovery of the unconscious and varied modes of representation, the primacy of memory in our apprehension of the present) and examine how current research and practice approach these areas.