Birkbeck Institute for Social Research/Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities

Speaker: David Bell

Freud’s Models of the Mind : Dreams, Symptoms and the Topographical Model
Having situated psychoanalysis within this broader context, this lecture will go to consider Freud’s first model of the mind and will explore the structure of explanation characteristic of his approach to dreams and symptoms

Suggested readings are here

David Bell is the Visiting Professorial Fellow in both the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research and the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. He is giving a series of lectures and workshops during the year, all of which are open to members of the public as well as students from any institution.

Dates of forthcoming lectures in this series: 7th February, 21st February, 14th March, 21st March. Information about all the lectures in this series is here