Dr Manuel Batsch
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
Qualifications
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PhD University College London, (2015)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Freuds metapsychology
The connections between the theory and the practice of psychoanalysis
The writing of psychoanalytic session
Psychoanalysis and the post-structuralism
Psychodynamic approaches of depression
Conferences and presentations
June 2014: Freud: Memory and the Metapsychological Witch. Paper given at the PhD seminar run by Professor Juliet Mitchell.
2014
December 2012: Project For A Scientific Psychology: The Impossibility of a Text. Paper given at the conference Unconscious Phantasy Today, UCL, London.
London, United Kingdom, 2012
May 2012: A Metapsychological Writing. Paper discussed at the forum: Psychoanalysis History and Political Thought run by Professors Jacqueline Rose & Daniel Pick.
2012
April 2012: Psychology of Knowledge vs. Psychology of Information: A Reading of Civilization and Its Discontent. Paper given at the PhD seminar run by Professor Juliet Mitchell.
2012
November 2011: Sadism and Masochism: A reading of A Child is Being Beaten. Paper given at the PhD seminar run by Professor Juliet Mitchell.
2011
May 2011: The Symptom and its Vicissitudes. Paper given at Middlesex Postgraduate Conference
London, United Kingdom, 2011
Teaching and supervision
Publications
Journal articles (6)
Batsch, M., The Transcription of a Psychoanalytic Session: To Write Beyond the Logos. Sitegeist A Journal of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy
Batsch, M., Project for a Scientific Psychology: The Impossibility of a Text
Batsch, M., (2021). The function of metapsychology – study of an American controversy, 1970s–1980s. Psychoanalysis and History. 23 (1), 75-100
Batsch, M., (2018). The vicissitudes of totemism – one hundred years after Totem and Taboo. Psychodynamic Practice. 24 (4), 393-395
Batsch, MNT., (2016). Sex Versus Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein by John Launer (London: Duckworth Overlook, 2014; 307pp); reviewed by Manuel Batsch.. Psychoanalysis and History
Batsch, M., (2012). Hallucinatory and Verbal Modes of Thinking. Language and Psychoanalysis. 1 (1), 5-18
Book chapters (2)
Batsch, M., (2021). ‘Project for a Scientific Psychology: The Impossibility of a Text’. In: Wilding Analysis: From the Couch to Cultural and Political Life. Editors: Bar-Haim, S., Coles, ES. and Tyson, H., . Routledge. 9781032061146
Batsch, M. and Berry, MD., (2012). The Symptom and its Vicissitudes: On the Function of Clinical Psychoanalysis. In: Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society.. Editors: Henderson, D., . Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 250- 266. 1-4438-3731-8. 978-1-4438-3731-6
