Psychoanalysis and Art (Online Survey Course Open To The Public)

15 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts 
and Social Workers

THIS COURSE IS OPEN TO PARTICIPANTS IN NEW YORK 
AS WELL AS THOSE OUTSIDE THE METROPOLITAN AREA

What is art?  What emotions or sensations do you feel when you create?  What are the relationships among art, dreams, mourning, fantasy, symbolization, subjectivity, identity, sexuality, and the unconscious?  This course introduces the area of overlap between psychoanalysis and art, including the mutual influences, borrowings, and inspirations between these two supposedly separate domains.  It examines the psychodynamics of the creative process (what motivates us to make art) and the aesthetic experience (how psychoanalysis can help us understand the powerful phenomenon of being confronted with a work of art).  This leads to an investigation of developments in psychoanalytic aesthetics, explored with various examples from painting, literature, and film.  Finally, the course looks at the therapeutic aspect of art and art therapy. 

Joseph Dodds, PhD, is a psychoanalyst (IPA), Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol, BPS), Psychotherapist (UKCP), and senior psychology lecturer (AAU, UNYP).  He is author of Psychoanalysis and Ecology at the Edge of Chaos: Complexity Theory, Deleuze, Guattari, and Psychoanalysis for a Climate in Crisis (Routledge, 2011).  His research includes psychoanalytic approaches to art, film, neuroscience, society, and climate change. 

Tuition: $500

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