Events and Seminars
| Event | : | Anxieties in the Analytic Encounter |
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| Venue | : | Paris, France |
| Date | : | 14/06/2024 - 16/06/2024 |
| Duration | : | 3 Days |
| Extra Info | : | IPSO Study Day with Jonathan Sklar The analytic encounter is a scene of anxieties, involving both patient and analyst, around loving and hateful feelings and the dread of knowledge. In Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety, Sigmund Freud defines anxiety as an affect experienced by the self in the face of danger, which, in final analysis, always means fear of separation and loss of object. Anxieties related to the infantile are replayed in the transference and counter-transference. They are currently finding new variations in an external world in turmoil: pandemic, climate change, war in Europe, destabilisation of democracies, artificial intelligence… So, when collective history breaks into our individual histories, anxieties triggered by the external world, such as the Dark Times by Jonathan Sklar, also need to be heard by the analyst from the point of view of the unconscious. This includes the unrepresented ghosts as well as empty states of mind that preoccupy many of our patients suffering unconscious trans-generational trauma. Meeting with the unconscious of the analysand and oneself is our task. It takes time beyond the training to gain experience. How do we listen to our patients when we ourselves are anxious about current events and prospects? The psyche-soma of the analyst cannot hide his anxiety. How does the complexity of the analytic encounter lead us, as analysts, to ambivalence, withdrawal and struggle in the face of uncertainty and intensity? Can this hinder our ability to offer analysis, to work out our patients’ resistance or to maintain an analytical framework? Authenticity is essential. An ability to ‘go there’ and be with the patient offers the best chance of analytical help. Patients can lose (again) a capacity to hope on the journey and we rely on our own creative capacities found and developed in our own analysis such that our hope carries the endeavour and trust is found. The analyst is invariably faced with a necessary choice to be brave: to dare to look behind the door, confront the repressed monsters, and thus make the manifestation of the infantile anxieties visible that underlie the painful experiences felt vis-à-vis internal and external objects, and the real world. Patients are not the only ones who are afraid… So are we! It is a challenge to be a brave enough analyst over time whilst meeting and holding the brave analysand. |
| Organised By | : | ISPSO |
| Web Link | : | https://ipsoparis2024.com/ |