Omphalos Reading Group

If you would like to join our reading group, please send me an email on harry.daniels@jesus.ox.ac.uk and I will send you a Teams link and a PDF of the relevant text.

LAPLANCHE

Tuesday 11 August — 18.00–18.50: Jacques Laplanche, ‘Towards a general theory of seduction’ in New Foundations for Psychoanalysis, trans. D. Macey (Basil Blackwell, 1989), 89-151.

Tuesday 18 August — 18.00–18.50: Jacques Laplanche, ‘Gender, sex, and the sexual’, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 8 (2007), 201-219.

Friday 21 August — 10.00–10.40: Jacques Laplanche, ‘Seduction, persecution, revelation’, International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 76 (1995), 663-682.

FONAGY & TARGET

Tuesday 25 August — 18.00–18.50: P. Fonagy and M. Target, ‘Attachment and reflective function: Their role in self-organization’, Development and Psychopathology, 9.4 (1997), 679-700.

Friday 28 August — 10.00–10.50: P. Fonagy and M. Target, ‘Playing with reality: I. Theory of mind and the normal development of psychic reality’, International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 77 (1996), 217-233.

Tuesday 8 September — 18.00–18.50: M. Target and P. Fonagy, ‘Playing with reality: II. The development of psychic reality from a theoretical perspective’, International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 77 (1996), 459-479.

Friday 11 September — 10.00–10.50: P. Fonagy and M. Target, ‘Playing with reality: III. The persistence of dual psychic reality in borderline patients’, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 81.5 (2000), 853-873.

Tuesday 15 September — 18.00–18.50: P. Fonagy and M. Target, ‘Playing with reality: IV. A theory of external reality rooted in intersubjectivity’, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 88.4 (2007), 917-937.

LAPLANCHE (CONTINUED)

Friday 18 September — 10.00–10.50: Jacques Laplanche and J.-B. Pontalis, ‘Fantasy and the origins of sexuality’, International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 49 (1968), 1-18.

Tuesday 22 September — 18.00–18.50: Jacques Laplanche, ‘The theory of seduction and the problem of the other’, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 78.4 (1997), 653-666.

LOEWALD

Friday 2 October — 10.00–10.50: H. W. Loewald, ‘Ego and reality’; Jonathan Lear, ‘Introduction’ to The Essential Loewald (2000).

Tuesday 6 October — 18.00–18.50: Nancy J. Chodorow, ‘The psychoanalytic vision of Hans Loewald’ (2003); Loewald, ‘The Problem of Defense and the Neurotic Interpretation of Reality’ (1952).

Friday 9 October — 10.00–10.50: Loewald, ‘Superego and Time’ (1962).

Tuesday 13 October — 18.00–18.50: Loewald, ‘On Internalization’ (1973).

Friday 16 October — 10.00–10.50: Loewald, ‘Some Considerations on Repetition and Repetition Compulsion’ (1973).

Tuesday 20 October — 18.00–18.50: Loewald, ‘On Motivation and Instinct Theory’ (1971).

Friday 23 October — 10.00–10.50: Loewald, ‘The Experience of Time’ (1972).

Tuesday 27 October — 18.00–18.50: Loewald, ‘Primary Process, Secondary Process, and Language’ (1978).

Friday 30 October — 10.00–10.50: Loewald, ‘Instinct Theory, Object Relations, and Psychic Structure Formation’ (1978).

Tuesday 3 November — 18.00–18.50: Loewald, ‘On the Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalysis’ (1960).

Friday 6 November — 10.00–10.50: Loewald, ‘Internalisation, Separation, Mourning, and the Superego’ (1962).

Tuesday 10 November — 18.00–18.50: Loewald, ‘The Waning of the Oedipus Complex’ (1979).

TBC

Friday 20 November — 10.00–10.50: Tbc.

Tuesday 24 November — 18.00–18.50: Tbc.

Friday 27 November — 10.00–10.50: Tbc.

Tuesday 1 December — 18.00–18.50: Tbc.

Friday 4 December — 10.00–10.50: Tbc.

Tuesday 8 December — 18.00–18.50: Tbc.

Friday 11 December — 10.00–10.50: Tbc.

Tuesday 15 December — 18.00–18.50:

Friday 18 December — 10.00–10.50:

Tuesday 22 December — 18.00–18.50