Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Dr Tom Goodwin
Senior Lecturer
Dr Tom Goodwin is a Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology and a Course Leader for the BA (Hons) in Social Psychology.
Tom joined our University in 2007. He taught across a range of social science subjects before becoming a permanent member of the social psychology team in 2011. Tom leads modules in interdisciplinary psychology, psychoanalysis, social psychology, radical psychology and a new course on madness.
Tom has a diverse academic background that reflects the interdisciplinary ethos of the psychology provision in the school. This includes an undergraduate degree in Psychology, an MA in Psychoanalysis, a PhD in English Literature, and a long-standing interest in and practise of fine art.
His teaching and research draws on a range of radical philosophical approaches to situate psychology within a broader social and theoretical environment. Adopting a critical psychological framework that is underpinned specifically by psychoanalysis and theories of deconstruction, his work primarily explores the interface between psychology and other subject areas such as literature, art, linguistics and social theory.
Much of Tom's teaching is research led, incorporating elements from films and novels as much as it does from Freud and other innovators in psychology.
Current Teaching
- Level 4 (first year):
- Interdisciplinary Psychology
- Doing Psychology
- Level 5 (second year):
- Psychoanalytic Contributions
- Societal Psychology
- Level 6 (third year):
- Radical Psychology
- Framing Madness
Research Interests
Tom's research emphasises an interdisciplinary approach to human inquiry. His PhD examined two Hungarian psychoanalysts Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok and the possible implications and applications of their work for understanding human subjectivity and interpreting its personal, social and literary manifestations. More recently he has extended these ideas in papers on Freud's famous "Wolf Man" case and a reading of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher'.
Selected Outputs
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Abraham N; Goodwin T (2023) The Symbol: Or Beyond the Phenomenon. Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 28 (5), pp. 135-161.
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Goodwin T (2023) Navigating the Psychoanalytic Symbol: The Transphenomenology of Nicolas Abraham. Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 28 (5), pp. 115-134.
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Goodwin T (2022) The Subject in Transmission: The Phantomic Origins of (Dual) Unity and the Birth of the Self. American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 82 pp. 32-59.
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Goodwin T (2020) Translating the Psychoanalysis of Origins: Reflections on Nicolas Abraham’s “Introducing Thalassa” and Sándor Ferenczi’s Theoretical Legacy. Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 25 (6), pp. 122-136.
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Abraham N; Goodwin T (2020) Introducing Thalassa. Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 25 (6), pp. 137-142.
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Goodwin TW; Abraham N (2017) Seminar on the dual unity and the phantom. diacritics
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Goodwin TW (2017) The haunted delimitation of subjectivity in the Work of Nicolas Abraham. diacritics
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Goodwin TW (2016) The Haunted Delimitation of Subjectivity in the Work of Nicolas Abraham: Translator's Preface. Diacritics
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Goodwin TW (2016) Seminar on the Dual Unity and the Phantom. Diacritics
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Goodwin TW (2012) Freud, the Wolf Man and the Encrypted Dynamism of Revolutionary History. European Journal of Psychoanalysis, JEP Online
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Goodwin TW (2017) The Radical Implications of Psychoanalysis for a Critical Social Psychology. In: Palgrave Handbook of Critical Social Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 81-99.