A Shimmering Landscape

A SHIMMERING LANDSCAPE: the imaginative and actual in psychic life

Dodi Goldman, Ph.D., Moderator Rachael Peltz, PhD

Sunday Feb 26, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Pacific Time

flyerThe poet Elizabeth Bishop’s grandmother had a glass eye. The glass eye often looked heaven-ward, or off at an angle, while the real eye looked directly at you. Bishop’s grandmother’s bifurcated gaze is a useful metaphor for an inherent strain in living, distinct from what psychoanalysis commonly describes as conflict between fantasy and reality. Whereas the notion of fantasy presumes a boundary between conscious and unconscious, imagining—here defined as the liberty of mind over the possibility of things—operates in an area of overlap between both conscious and unconscious and inner and outer realities. We don’t simply “see” an objective reality nor solely invent a subjective one. Development is not achieved by replacing the later with the former. And so a new question arises: How do we cultivate and retain a capacity to imaginatively enliven reality, even as we see things for what they are? In this talk, we will look (with our own bifurcated gaze) at a series of projected images to consider how the idiosyncratic interplay between the actual and imaginative is forged from within our earliest relationships.


CE Credits offered: 2

Course Objectives

After completing this course participants will be able to:

  1. List three ways in which we cultivate and retain the capacity to imaginatively enliven reality.
  2. Describe the concept of an idiosyncratic interplay between the actual and imaginative and give two examples of how that is forged within our earliest relationships

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When
February 26th, 2023 10:00 AM
Location
Online via Zoom (Pacific Time Zone)
CA
United States
Event Fee(s)
Admission
General Admission $ 25.00
PINC Members $ 15.00
Candidates, Students and CMH workers $ 0.00
CE Credits (2) $ 20.00