This course covers the history and development of major psychoanalytic traditions; it is highly relevant to contemporary social, political and cultural debates; students examine the unconscious mind in everyday life and in relation to mental illness and human suffering; they expand their critical and analytical skills in a productive atmosphere, enhanced by high-level group and individual tutorials; the course promotes a wide-ranging consideration of the nature of psychoanalysis; in addition to studying the major figures of the psychoanalytic movement (Freud, Lacan and Klein) students consider the work of the 2nd and 3rd generations of psychoanalysts in terms of their clinical practice and contributions to the development of analytical theory; a key feature of the programme is a seminar on clinical methodologies, where practitioners from different schools of psychoanalysis present and discuss their clinical work and where students have a chance to examine in depth the key cases histories of psychoanalysis: Freud's 'Dora' and 'the Wolf Man'; Klein's 'Richard'; as they continue to raise relevant questions for contemprary practice; the course provides a theoretical background through presentations on the history of psychoanalysis and an examination of the key theoretical and clinical concepts in the analytical field, from a number of different perspectives; in a further module the course looks specifically at the role that psychoanalysis plays in the social and cultural sphere: how it contributes to an understanding of race, sexuality, globalisation, violence.