This is the 4th and final seminar of a 4-part series that introduces the historical and philosophical foundations of analytical psychology as a way of providing a fuller contextual understanding of key concepts, texts and clinical practices, and the critical framework through which they emerged. In this seminar we will explore the challenges raised against analytical psychology and psychoanalysis in the 20th and 21st centuries through a number of radically different cultural, philosophical and scientific waves, including postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, the linguistic turn in the humanities, and contemporary science. We will consider the answers that the field can offer to its critics and its relevance in the 21st century.

Attendance at previous seminars in this series is not a requirement

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Zaretsky, E., Secrets of The Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis, Three Rivers Press(2005), Introduction.

Frosh, S., For and Against Psychoanalysis, Routledge (2006), Chapter 7: Psychoanalysis and the politics of identity

Colman, W., “Psychotherapy as a Skilled Practice”, Journal of Analytical Psychology, 65-4 (2020): 624-644

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