Media - Lectures on psychology

Lectures given by Aleksei Fomkin to students of the Institute of Contemporary Art (Moscow) from 2020-2022.

Forms of knowledge. Prerequisites for the emergence of psychology. Features of psychology as a scientific and practical discipline. The concepts of “spirit”, “soul”, “psyche”, etc. Psychophysiological problem. Stages of development of psychological knowledge. Materials used by N. Main.
Course topics. Psychodynamic directions of psychology. Z. Freud. The formation of psychoanalysis. The contribution of psychoanalysis to culture. Basic psychoanalytic terms. Materials used by N. Main.
Basic terms of psychoanalysis (continued). Answers to students' questions. Materials used by N. Main.
Mental conflict. Principles and mechanisms of mental life. Anxiety and protection. Materials used by N. Main.
Mechanisms of psychological defense. Materials used by N. Main.
Basic principles of psychotherapy (free associations, setting, transference, countertransference). Stages of psychosexual development (introductory information). Answers on questions. Materials used by N. Main.
Oral stage of psychosexual development.
Anal stage of psychosexual development.
Stages of psychosexual development. Oral stage, Anal stage, Phallic stage, Oedipal stage (beginning). Materials used by N. Main.
Stages of psycho-sexual development: oedipal, latent stage, pre-adolescence, adolescence. Mature personality: main characteristics. Materials used by N. Main
Basic beliefs and characteristics of the schizoid personality. Reasons for the formation of this type of character. Materials used by O. Vinogradova.
Character types. Paranoid character type. Basic beliefs and characteristics of the paranoid personality. Reasons for the formation of this type of character. Materials used by O. Vinogradova.
Narcissistic character type. Psychopathic character type. Hysterical type of character. Obsessive-compulsive personality type.
Character types (continued). Family therapy. Dependent character type. Avoidant personality type. The theory of family therapy by S. Minukhin, M. Bowen. Concepts: family system, functional and dysfunctional family, differentiation, triangulation, family projective process.
Basic concepts of family therapy Bowen.A. Eulenburg. The concept of “mental trauma”. G. Oppenheim. "Traumatic neurosis." J.-M. Charcot and P. Janet about the “traumatic event”. Freud on trauma. “War neurosis”, “Shell shock”. "Buchenwald Syndrome". Post-traumatic stress. Grief of loss (introduction). Z. Freud on intergenerational transmission. K. Jung about the “collective unconscious” and “archetypes” (introduction). The difference between the views of Freud and Jung on the content of the term “unconscious”. Fate analysis by Sondi. Assignment for 1st semester: drawing up a genogram of one’s clan and family (main parameters and requirements). The presentations used materials from psychotherapist S.D. Bimbat.
Manic-depressive personality type. Epileptoid personality type. Masochistic personality type.
Parental prohibitions (directives and orders). Grief and mourning. Psychology of addictions.
Transactional analysis by Eric Berne. Epileptoid character type (as an example). Erik Erikson's concept of developmental stages and crises.
General overview lecture for correspondence and evening groups. A detailed story about the assignment for the end of the 1st semester. Answers to students' questions. Discussion.
Jungian model of the psyche. Marriage. Individuation. Complexes. Anima, Animus. Female and male archetypes. Maternal and paternal complexes.
Description of the assignment for the second semester test: an essay on the topic “Your personal myth.” Psychology of dreams.
The concept of "person". Jungian view of marriage and individuation. Female and male archetypes. Maternal and paternal complexes.
K. G. Jung. History of family and life. Specifics of Jungian analysis. Basic concepts. Jungian model of the psyche.
Developmental psychology. Stages of psychosexual development. Features of children's development during the school period. Below, see additional lectures on behavioral disorders in children
Anima, Animus. Father and mother complex. Transformation circle: stages and their content.
Jungian typology.
Manifestations of archaic aspects of the psyche in folklore and literary sources.