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FPC CPD Seminar Series 2018-2019: Complete Series Booking

Start
22 Sep 2018
10:30
End
13 Apr 2019
12:30
Location
Essex Church, Palace Gardens Terrace, Notting Hill W8
Spaces left
46

Registration

FPC Member – £230.00
FPC Trainee Member – £195.00
Non Member – £270.00

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The Superego in the 21st Century

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The contributors to this seminar series explore the impact of a person’s moral inclinations and values, the province of the superego, on personal development and on attitudes and behaviours towards self and others. Psychoanalytic theoretical and developmental perspectives; and the role of the superego in different states of mind will be examined.

The series will offer insights from clinical and theoretical domains, which enlighten some of the most troubling features of our age, such as extremist fundamentalism and psychopathic tendencies and behaviours. This is a timely moment to revisit and re-envision Freud’s psychoanalytic concept of the superego in the early twenty-first century, its relevance for psychoanalytic psychotherapy and for enlightening certain social, cultural and political aspects of our modern world.

The series is based on papers to be published in a forthcoming book edited by Celia Harding for Routledge 2018/19.

“The ego’s relation to the id might be compared with that of a rider to his horse. The horse supplies the locomotive energy, while the rider has the privilege of deciding on the goal and of guiding the powerful animal’s movement. But only too often there arises between the ego and the id the not precisely ideal situation of the rider being obliged to guide the horse along the path by which it itself wants to go…

We are warned by the proverb against serving two masters at the same time. The poor ego has things even worse. It serves three severe masters… the external world, the super-ego and the id”. Freud, S 1933

This season’s speakers include:

Celia Harding

Senior FPC Member and Author

Ann Horne

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Heather Wood

Portman/NHS Psychotherapist

Jack Nathan

Consultant at the Maudsley

Lesley Murdin

Senior FPC Member and Author

Celia Taylor