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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 2436yesCoursera

The Syllabus

Readings
  • About this course
  • Course assessments and exercises
  • Optional companion book

Videos
  • Meet Sigmund
  • Freud's Method
  • Meditative Moment
  • Inside the Unconscious
  • Freudian Slips
  • Dreams
  • Meditative Moment
  • Is a Cigar Ever Just a Cigar?
  • Left Behind?

Readings
  • 'The Freudian Unconscious', by M. Green
  • 'Freud as Philosopher', by G. Marino
  • 'What Freudian Slips Really Reveal about Your Mind'
  • Why You Keep Dreaming You Forgot Your Pants
  • Freud's Civilisation and its Discontents
  • Revonsuo's theory of dreaming
  • Freud's General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
Practice Exercises
  • Initial thoughts: Your unconscious
  • Practice Quiz #1
  • Creating civilisation anew
  • Practice Quiz #2
  • Module 1 Quiz

Videos
  • Your mind on the defence
  • Defense mechanisms
  • Meditative Moment
  • A window into the child's mind
  • Introjecting, projecting, and gaslighting
  • Meditative Moment
  • The best defence
  • Summary
Readings
  • Anna Freud and child psychoanalysis
  • More on Projection
  • A story of gaslighting
  • 'Homophobic? Maybe You’re Gay'
  • Is catharsis really a thing?
  • Empirical study of reaction-formation and other defense mechanisms
  • 5 Signs that you're dealing with a passive-aggressive person
  • Object-Relations Theory
Practice Exercises
  • Initial thoughts: "In denial"
  • Practice Quiz 1
  • Practice Quiz 2
  • Witnessing defence mechanisms
  • Module 2 Quiz

Videos
  • Strangers to Ourselves
  • Proprioception and other automatic marvels
  • A snowball on top of the iceberg?
  • Meditative Moment
  • Tests for the adaptive unconscious
  • The psychological immune system
  • Implicit bias
  • Durability bias
  • Meditative Moment
  • Conscious will
  • Decision making
Readings
  • 'The Adaptive Unconscious' by M. Green
  • BBC documentary on Ian Waterman
  • 'We don't know our own strength'
  • 'Consciousness, introspection, and the adaptive unconscious'
  • Take the Implicit Association Text
  • The Implicit Association Test Challenged
  • Miswanting (you probably do it, too)
Practice Exercises
  • Initial Thoughts
  • Practice Quiz #1
  • Your personal spin doctor
  • Practice Quiz #2
  • Module 3 Quiz

Videos
  • Practical and theoretical rationality
  • The Ghastly Ordeal of Phineas Gage
  • Meditative Moment
  • Knows, but does not feel
  • Primary and secondary emotions
  • Somatic markers
  • How would that make you feel?
  • Somatic markers and the SEUT
  • Meditative Moment
  • Somatic markers gone awry
  • Descartes' errors?
Readings
  • Bear cub videos!
  • More about Phineas Gage
  • 'Somatic markers: how your body makes decisions'
  • Alexithymia: life without emotions
  • Damasio on the somatic marker hypothesis
  • Addiction and Somatic Markers
  • Cold War Kids
Practice Exercises
  • Initial Thoughts
  • Practice Quiz #1
  • Practice Quiz 2
  • A SEUT just for you
  • Module 4 Quiz

Readings
  • Share what you've learned by editing the Wikipedia entry on self-knowledge!
  • A brief How-To
  • The Examined Life
  • Losing Oneself

Instructors

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