Registration begins at noon on
September  8.

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2025 Fall
Instructor: Bill Portela

Thursdays • 7 classes – 9/18-10/30 • 1:00 PM-3:00 PM

Class size 5-24 students
22 seats remaining
Location: Jewett 190

 

This course provides an overview of Sigmund Freud’s most important concepts and writing. We update Freud’s assertions with the newest information across diverse fields, including psychology, anthropology, neural biology, and evolutionary science. Freud’s id remains one of the earliest attempts to reconcile Darwin’s new thinking with emerging psychoanalytic theory. This course concentrates on his id theory and early childhood development. Many of Freud’s intricate details did not merge into accepted neurobiological science. With corrections, however, his upper-level theories conform with newer research, and he introduced a spectrum of ideas that stand up admirably over a century of scientific advancement.

Freud in the 21st Century – The Relevance of Our Id

Bill Portela has been a Maine science teacher, wildlife rehabilitator, and breeder of draft horses. He is the author of The Eleventh Layer – Origins of Human Evolution. He has taught in Maine institutions including: elementary, middle, and high school and university level.