Bi-Ocularity, the Functioning Mind of the Psychoanalyst
Dr. Dana Birksted-Breen in the reading of her unpublished paper
January 15, 2015 – 8:30 p.m. – IPTAR West, 140 W 97th St, New York NY
Birksted-Breen discusses the mode of attentiveness that she calls bi-ocularity: one eye/I on the immediate and one eye/I on that which is not present, the” there” of the unconscious, the lost connection, the non represented. She distinguishes it from Bion’s notion of “binocular vision”.. Bi-ocularity entails a necessary gap in the images, which also corresponds to the temporal gap of
reverie. She considers the importance of bi-ocularity for the development of symbolic thinking and discusses this with clinical material.
Birksted-Breen is among the foremost European psychoanalytic thinkers today in conceptualizing time and spatial structures that govern psychoanalytic technique related to reaching patients in the most emotionally available moment and immediacy of the here and now experience. We strongly encourage candidates to use this opportunity to hear her way of working.
Bio: Dana Birksted-Breen L-ès-L, D.Phil., is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the Institute of Psychoanalysis , London, and works in private practice. She has lectured and leads workshops internationally. She won an international prize for her paper Phallus, Penis and Mental Space. Her most recent papers in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis are: Reverberation Time: dreaming and the capacity to Dream and Taking Time, The tempo of psychoanalysis. She recently co-edited Reading French Psychoanalysis. Former General Editor of the New Library of Psychoanalysis, Dana Birksted-Breen is currently the Editor-in- Chief of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
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Moderator: Susan Finkelstein
Program Committee: Carolyn Ellman (chair) Eva Atsalis, Susan Berger, Christopher Christian, Steven Ellman, Jeanne Even, Ben Kafka, Judy Ann Kaplan, Michael Moskowitz
Enclosure: Birksted-Breen 2012 “IJP” “Taking Time, The tempo of psychoanalysis”. If you don’t know her work, you may enjoy reading this paper.
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