Course Description:

The 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 the inherent strain involved in coming to terms with reality, distinct from what psychoanalysis commonly describes as conflict between reality and pleasure.  We neither simply "see" an objective reality nor invent a subjective one. 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. This issue is relevant for all clinical work.

Course Link:
http://www.mcpp.online

CE Value (credits): 2
CE Type: Standard

Michigan Council for
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

Contact Information:
Rebecca Hatton, Psy.D
734-709-2183
rebecca.hatton1@gmail.com