Simon Boag
Simon Boag is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Macquarie University where he teaches personality theory, research methods and the history and philosophy of psychology. He has published extensively in the area of Freudian repression and unconscious mental processes, philosophy of mind, conceptual research and is the author of Freudian Repression, the Unconscious, and the Dynamics of Inhibition.
Freudian Repression, the Unconscious, and the Dynamics of Inhibition
Possibly no other psychoanalytic concept has caused as much ongoing controversy, and attracted so much criticism, as that of "repression". Repression involves denying knowledge to oneself about the... (more)
Philosophy, Science, and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Meeting
The perennial interest in psychoanalysis shows no signs of abating and the longevity of psychoanalytic theory is seen in the varied extensions and elaborations of Freudian thinking in the fields of... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Philosophy of Mind: Unconscious Mentality in the Twenty-first Century
Of the topics found in psychoanalytic theory it is Freud’s philosophy of mind that is at once the most contentious and enduring. Psychoanalytic theory makes bold claims about the significance of... (more)
Metapsychology and the Foundations of Psychoanalysis: Attachment, Neuropsychoanalysis and Integration
Metapsychology and the Foundations of Psychoanalysis redresses faults in Freud's original conception to develop a coherent theoretical basis for psychodynamic theory. Simon Boag demonstrates that... (more)
Dissociation and the Dynamics of Personality: Trauma, Consciousness, and Culture
Dissociation and the Dynamics of Personality addresses the nature of personality in trauma-dissociation and proposes a dynamic understanding of persons that fundamentally challenges conventional... (more)