EBOR 2018 Plenary Recordings
Twelfth International
Evolving British Object Relations Conference
"The Body as Psychoanalytic Object: Clinical Applications from Winnicott to Bion and Beyond"
EBOR Plenary Presenters
"Winnicott, Klein and Bion: Further Thoughts On the Nature of the External Object-Holding and Container/Contained"
In this video lecture, Dr. Aguayo gives a concise overview of how Winnicott collaborated with, then fell out with Melanie Klein's theories over what he termed the 'environmental factor' after he published his landmark paper on 'Transitional Objects' in 1953. Nonetheless, he continued a postal dialogue with other members of the London Klein group before and after Klein's death in 1960, specifically with Wilfred Bion in attempts to persuade him of the mother's importance in the infant's early development. By the time Bion took mother's containing (or environmental) function into consideration, Winnicott believed that his own contributions were once again being in a sense appropriated by another Kleinian, while they continued to ignore and not cite his own research. This is an updated version of a paper, which appears in the December 2018 issue of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly.
Joseph Aguayo, PhD, FIPA is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of California, an Associate Member of the New Center for Psychoanalysis, both in Los Angeles, where he maintains a private practice. He holds UCLA doctorates in both Clinical Psychology and European History. He is also a Guest Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society in London. He merges his clinical and research interests by publishing on clinical history of Kleinian and Bionian psychoanalysis. His most recent book is a co-edited project with Lia Pistiner de Cortinas and Agnes Regeczkey, Bion in Buenos Aires: Seminars and Supervision, (Karnac Books, 2017).
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"Being after Winnicott: Minding the Body, Embodying the Mind"
Dr. Caldwell's presentation argues for returning the body to a central place in clinical work. Neither Winnicott nor Bion placed the body at the centre of their work with adult patients. Yet their interest in what happens in the consulting room for both analyst and analysand offers signposts on how to deploy a psychoanalysis that does acknowledge the body as a central marker of identity and seeks to understand the variety of ways that analytic communication proceeds through bodily phenomena and bodily presence. The close links between the body, identity and the self have increasingly seen psychological disturbance and difficulty gather around bodily symptoms, bodily change, bodily limits, and body modification. In the same period psychoanalysis has focused on 'states of mind' in a way that parallels the body's eclipse. These observations are applied to an analytic case showing how the analyst can make use of bodily experience to deepen understanding of analytic process.
Lesley Caldwell, MA, PhD, FIPA is a psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytic Association in private practice in London. She is a training analyst for the Independent child and adolescent London training program (IPCAPA) and a member of its Training Analysts Committee. With Helen Taylor Robinson, Lesley is joint General Editor of the Collected Works of Donald Winnicott (OUP, 2016). With Angela Joyce, she edited Reading Winnicott (Routledge 2011) and as editor of the Winnicott studies monograph series from 2000 to 2008 she edited four collections on Winnicott for Karnac Books.
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"Does the Body have a Mind?"
Does the body have a mind? With this question the paper takes the audience on a tour starting in the consulting room with an actual analysand. The milestones are analytic contributions and discoveries from early Freud on towards Melanie Klein, Meltzer, McDougall, and the French somaticists Marty and de M'uzan. From there, early and late Bion are being explored and the groundbreaking originality of his thought is being highlighted. It ends with Bion's rather nihilistic view of life and the reaches of psychoanalysis, which he stated after have a lifetime experience as a person and an analyst.
Robert Oelsner, MD, FIPA initially trained as a pediatrician, is a training and supervising analyst of the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. He is a guest faculty of the Child Analytic Training Program of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and a guest of the German Psychoanalytic Society (DPG). He is the editor and co-author of Transference and Countertransference Today (New Library of Psychoanalysis, 2013) and numerous book chapters in both English and German language psychoanalytic publications. He teaches regularly on the works of Bion and Meltzer in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.
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"Winnicott, Bion and Beyond: Erotic Embodiment in the Analytic Field"
While there is increasing interest in somatic life within psychoanalysis, attention to the body in its libidinal aspects remains somewhat limited in scope. Winnicott's formulations of psychesoma, indwelling, and personalization have been understood predominantly as apart from the sexual body. Bion's theorizing as well has tended to be utilized in a decidedly asexual manner, with "passion" and "intercourse" thought of as mind-to-mind phenomena. Analytic field theory drawing on Bion, integrates bodily experience, but not necessarily the sexual body. When erotic embodiment is considered within our current models, the focus tends to be on oedipal level transference and countertransference. Our psychosexual heritage as human beings is somewhat obscured. I integrate Winnicott's emphasis on the psychesoma with a Freudian focus on embodied libidinal life. I elaborate Kristeva's (2014) concept of maternal eroticism and suggest a parallel in the analytic field where the clinical couple hopes to find resonance within analytic eroticism.
Dianne Elise, PhD, FIPA is a personal and supervising analyst and faculty member of the Psychoanaltyic Institute of Northern California, a training analyst member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, and a past member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanaltyic Association and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Her over 30 publications include papers in the Psychoanaltyic Study of the Child, The Psychoanaltyic Quarterly, JAPA, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and Psychoanalytic Inquiry.
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"The Body's Way of Dreaming: Music and Psychical Life Beyond Representation"
In considering the special role that musicality and music play in psychical life, the presenter proposes that musical sound-patterns (tempo, rhythm, tone, harmony, dissonance) provide a psycho-sensory pattern language that makes sense of the psychology of the body. This suggests a specific psychical role for music in shaping an essential non-representational domain of psychical life-a domain of psycho-sensory, embodied experience unmediated by words or symbols, possessing its own mode of organization and functional transformations. The presenter suggests the existence of something like a 'beta function' that gives shape and form to psychical processes at this undifferentiated, pre-reflective level of being-in-the-world. This formulation highlights music's function in bringing psychical life closer to the psychology of the body as well as the way in which music is implicated in the counter-tendency towards mind-body dissociation. Finally, it offers a way to think about the effects of different musical cultures on our embodied experience, about our inherent ambivalence towards living within the limits of our bodies and our ambivalence towards music itself.
Peter Goldberg, PhD, FIPA is a personal and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, is Chair of Faculty at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and on the faculty of the Wright Institute in Berkeley. He has presented widely and written on a range of clinical and theoretical topics, including evolution of clinical theory in psychoanalysis; sensory experience in analysis; the concept of the analytic frame; the theory and treatment of dissociative states; non-representational states; and the impact of social trauma on individual psychology.
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