“How are we to see, observe…. these things which are not visible?” (Bion, 2005). How does felt experience become thinkable?
Peter will explore the issue of time in relation to psychoanalytic therapy, especially related to psychological and therapeutic growth. Clinical material will be discussed to help illustrate how time is necessary for ego development, anxiety tolerance, and coming into an honest depressive position. Various other issues will be considered, including the relationship of time to grief and loss, and the relationship of time with what Freud termed the “reality principle.”
This will be our fourth in a series of conversations representing these three views, where we have explored and learned that natural science’s objective knowledge and the subjective understanding of inner science are not mutually exclusive.
In the December scientific meeting, Jeff Eaton, who instigated this series on unconscious phantasy, reviewed understandings from works by David Bell and Heinz Weiss, and others as well as some of his own formulations. The February presentation by Maxine Anderson considered contributions by Rachel Blass and Catalina Bronstein on unconscious phantasy. In this forthcoming discussion Judy K Eekhoff will discuss the relationship between identification and unconscious phantasy using articles by Gabriella Giustino and Marie Rhodes.
SORRY, THESE MEETINGS HAVE BEEN CANCELED
We live in the grip of a form of anxiety unknown to Freud, Jung, and Lacan. It is not anxiety over the self, but anxiety over the world without which there would be no selves to worry about. Nature has become an issue for us, whether it be in the form of climate change, mass extinction, or the disturbing possibility that nature is over. At the same time, we despair for humanity: there appears to be no way to move from our knowledge of the current precarious state of the earth to a practice and politics that would rectify it.
Saturday: Keynote Speaker Dr. Eric Green - "Jungian Play Therapy: Guiding Children Toward the Undefended Heart"
Sunday: Breakout Sessions
Morning Sessions (choose 1):
This coming February, the Center for Object Relations and The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology will proudly welcome psychoanalyst Avedis Panajian back to Seattle for another memorable exploration of the deeply human endeavor that is psychoanalysis. In this year’s visit, Dr. Panajian will focus on grief, mourning and pathological mourning and the ways in which particular psychoanalytic theorists can help us understand the complex and contradictory nature of the painful, creative, and indelibly human experience of loss. Dr.
In anticipation of his visit to Seattle in February 2019, the Center for Object Relations is excited to offer a clinically-focused webinar with Dr. Avedis Panajian that will explore the issues of mourning and grief as they manifest in the consulting room between therapists and patients.
