Continuing with this discussion of depth, I was exploring the experience of depth in perception as an access into a different way of relating to depth in psychoanalytic work. We live the experience of depth in the relationship between form and its field. With visual phenomena there’s a connected distance between some ‘thing’ and the […]
In my last entry, I began to muse about depth, using my experiences with hypnosis and with multi-stable illusions like the Necker Cube. My interest in depth connects quite directly to my work as a psychoanalyst, where an encounter opens the mundane into different dimensions of experiencing. In my last post, I was especially interested […]
As a psychoanalyst, I often think of my clinical work in terms of depth. How do the moments in a session gain momentum, and go deeper? How does the work shift from the pleasantries of greeting and recounting the events of the day or week to concerns that touch something more central to a person’s […]
Lifeworld, Lebenswelt, le monde vécu. An entry into a special space, a way of engaging, describing, thinking about and breathing into everyday life as we live it. This is something at the heart of the phenomenological enterprise, something also central to the kind of attention and dwelling that is part of psychoanalysis. As a psychoanalyst trained in […]
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