Reading list

Hello,

Here is the PHG reading list which will take us up to our first class on 21st September. I've divided the chapters up and each week is around 30 pages (sometimes more, sometimes less). I'll post the reading for each week and we can use the comments box for our discussions.

Volume Two of PHG: Novelty Excitement and Growth

Week 1: 20^th July

• Part 1: Introduction
• I: The Structure of Growth
• II: Differences in General Outlook

Week 2: 27^th July

• Part 2: Reality, Human Nature and Society
• III: 'Mind', 'Body' and 'External World'
• IV: Reality, Emergency and Evaluation

Week 3: 3^rd August

• V: Maturing, and the Recollection of Childhood
• VI: Human Nature and the Anthropology of Neurosis

Week 4: 10^th August

• VII: Verbalizing and Poetry
• VIII: The Anti-Social and Aggression

Week 5: 17^th August

• IX: Conflict and Self-Conquest

Week 6: 24^th August

• Part 3: Theory of the Self
  • X: Self, Ego, Id, and Personality
  • XI: Critique of Psychoanalytic Theories of the Self

Week 7: 31^st August

• XII: Creative Adjustment I
  • Fore-Contact and Contacting

• XIII: Creative Adjustment II
  • Final Contact and Post-Contact

Week 8: 7^th September

• XIV: Loss of Ego-Functions I
  • Repression; Critique of Freud's Theory of Repression

Week 9: 14^th September

• XV: Loss of Ego-Functions II
  • Typical Structures and Boundaries