Todd Dufresne, Lakehead University

Research

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Latest funding

The Late Sigmund Freud: the death drive at work, 1920-1939
SSHRC · 2010 · Principal investigator
$29,215
Trauma and the birth of the psychoneuroses: medical discourse from railway spine to shell shock
SSHRC · 2005 · Principal investigator
$22,513
An introduction to critical Freud studies
SSHRC · 2000 · Principal investigator
$50,620

All 3 grants and awards

No publications available.

The Late Sigmund Freud: the death drive at work, 1920-1939

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: Dufresne, Todd R.

Keywords: Freud; psychoanalysis; history; medicine; philosophy

$29,215

Trauma and the birth of the psychoneuroses: medical discourse from railway spine to shell shock

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Dufresne, Todd R.

Keywords: psychoanalysis; trauma; history of medicine; literary criticism

$22,513

An introduction to critical Freud studies

Principal investigatorSSHRC2000Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Dufresne, Todd

Keywords: Psychoanalysis; history of medicine; post-structuralism; cultural studies

$50,620

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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