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Marcia Dobson

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Marcia’s recent writing, teaching, and research lie in the interstices of classics (in particular classical myth and drama), and contemporary psychoanalysis. She teaches ancient Greek, Myth and Meaning, Discovering the Unconscious, and Life of the Soul, as well as Contemporary Psychoanalysis at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute as a summer course for CC undergraduates. All of these courses contribute to the psychoanalysis minor, which she chairs. Marcia presents at major conferences and has recently compiled and edited a series of papers, published in two journals on “Belonging and Not Belonging,” from the International Association for Self Psychology meeting, held in Jerusalem in 2014. She has also presented a paper entitled “Why Does Orestes Stay Mad?” at an International Conference on Psychology and Classics in Leuven, Belgium, in the Spring 2015. Presently, she and her husband, John Riker, professor of philosophy at Colorado College, are co-chairs of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Psychoanalysis in Undergraduate Education, and run a grant awarded to Colorado College by David O’Donaghue for $10.000 a year to support psychoanalytic studies at the college.

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