Certificate in the Foundations of Psychoanalysis

Description: The seminar offers insights into psychoanalytic thought beginning with an overview of the life and work of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, and introduces its unique delineation of psychical structure in terms of neurosis and psychosis, alongside fundamental concepts such as “the unconscious, “transference,” and the “drive” as gateways into how we think about the human psyche both clinically and in everyday life.

Tutor: Eve Watson (PhD) is involved in psychoanalytic practice, training, education, and research. She is a co-director of a busy Dublin city centre practice, and has published numerous essays on psychoanalysis, sexuality, film, culture, and literature. Her co-edited books are Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory (2017, Punctum), Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2024), Freud’s Principal Case Studies Revisited: Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysts Reconsider the Legacy (Routledge, 2025). She is the academic director of the Freud Lacan institute (FLi), and was the Editor of Lacunae, the International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis from 2016-2024. In 2022, she was the Erikson Scholar-in-Residence at the Austen Riggs Centre in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. She was the Burns Scholar in Irish Studies at Boston College in the Fall of 2025.

Feb 5 - Introduction to Psychoanalysis and Its Structuring of Neurosis & Psychosis

Feb12 - The Unconscious in Everyday Practice

Feb 19 - Working with Dreams, the Royal Road to the Unconscious

Feb 26th - Hysteria and Obsessional Neurosis in Clinical Practice

Mar 5th - Psychology of Groups, Organisations, and Institutions

Mar 12th - Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Film

Mar 19th - Psychoanalysis, Trauma, Adverse Childhood Experiences

Mar 26th - Psychoanalysis of Sexuality and Gender

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