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What I find exciting about the course is the diversity
of teachers that we have in terms of different points of view
as well as what they specialise in and essentially we get to know
every one of these teachers and their areas of expertise a little better
throughout the course
and in the end we are faced with the fact that we have a very experienced
knowledgeable teachers who are willing to impart
their knowledge and to engage with us in
discussions which are very difficult at times
but every time it's very challenging and stimulating.
What's very difficult about the course is the subject that is
that is being looked at and that is at times
difficult because it encompasses
ideas of human life
such as mourning, death, tragedy, trauma
and these can be very difficult to look at from an
academic point-of-view.
After studying history and politics
and dabbling in the study of musicology, I discovered
I wanted to know a little more about human
behavior and what I knew so far about psychoanalysis was very limited to Freud
and so I decided to look at various courses that introduce
psychoanalysis and I found this course
and once I looked at it and looked at what was being offered, I decided that
essentially it was very different to
anything else that was being offered in the country and
it seem to go a lot more in depth and
there seemed to be a lot more variety in terms of
what was being looked at, so I decided to apply.
I have two favourite parts of the course I'd say;
one is the Freud reading seminars which is an entire module
and looks at the works of Sigmund Freud from a chronological perspective
and before I started the course I thought I knew something about it but
when we started actually doing
all the reading, we discovered that there was a lot more to it than we first thought
and engaging in that at the same time with all the other students who probably
felt the same and who had
no extensive knowledge as such was
was really fantastic thing to do together.
We also had
a part of a model called contemporary clinical
theory in which we had analysts-- practicing analysts --
coming in and talking about their experience with
patients and what was fantastic about that was that they really
took to heart our questions, our interests and
it was a discussion and not so much a lecture anymore
and we had a lot more to learn about how theory ties in with
with real, practical implications.
In the future I'd like to train as a psychoanalyst and
also I would like to be involved in academia so to come full circle from
student to
perhaps teacher in the distant future.