The Ego and its Forms of Dependence

Seminar
  • Date and time: Wednesday 15 May 2024, 3pm
  • Location: Seminar Room D/L/037, Derwent College, Campus West, University of York (Map)
  • Audience: Open to students
  • Admission: Free admission, booking not required

Event details

This seminar will discuss 'The Ego and its Forms of Dependence', Section V of The Ego and the Id in Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Other Writings by Sigmund Freud (Penguin Modern Classics, 2003, pp. 138-149).

Adam Phillips is a psychoanalyst as well as one of the most influential essayists and thinkers writing today. The Irish novelist John Banville has him as 'one of the finest prose stylists in the language, an Emerson of our time'.  Adam has been Visiting Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature since 2006.  He is the General Editor of the Penguin Freud, and author of more than 16 books of essays and studies from On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored (1993) to Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst (2014).  His most recent books are On Giving Up (Penguin, 2024), Attention Seeking (Penguin, 2019), and In Writing (Penguin 2017).

The Ego and its Forms of Dependence (PDF , 2,325kb)