4^th Annual Conference of TAICP

 

“Flames from the Unconscious: Trauma, Madness and Faith”

 

with

Michael Eigen

 

The conference will take place on June 12-13^th 2008 at the Sharon Hotel, Herzlia, Israel

 

We are delighted to host Michael Eigen Ph.D. at this forthcoming conference. Eigen is among the most important thinkers in contemporary psychoanalysis. He will deliver three lectures (3 hours each), in which, in his poetic, vital and moving language, he will present his thoughts on “Madness, Rage, Trauma and Belief” spanning the thinking of Winnicott and Bion to his vision of the contemporary world. Eigen will share his own clinical material and will invite questions from and dialogue with the audience on these subjects, within the borders of psychoanalysis and beyond.

    

Program:

Thursday Evening 12^th June, 2008

1700-1830  Preliminary Lecture (Hebrew)

 

אזור האמונה בין מייקל אייגן לבין קוראיו: איך להקשיב למייקל אייגן?

ענר גוברין, מכון ת"א לפסיכואנליזה בת זמננו; התוכנית לפרשנות, אוניברסיטת בר אילן

 

Aner Govrin, TAICP and Bar Ilan University, Co-author (with Michael Eigen) of :

Conversations With Michael Eigen (Karnac)

 

1830-1900   Break and Registration

 

19.15 -19.00  Welcoming Address:  Cobi Avshalom,

                         Chair, Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis

 

19.15 – 22.00               Lecture I       Michael Eigen: 

 

Hope’s Vanishing Point: The Last Scream and Madness X

 

Both Winnicott and Bion write of a point where the scream vanishes and new sorts of madness begin. Winnicott speaks of a last point of hope and Bion traces one’s entry to oblivion. Using the chapter, “Scream”, from his book, Rage, Dr. Eigen will enter this domain and share some of its shadows. He writes, “The scream I delineate contains all screams, from infancy through adulthood, personal, familial, social, cosmic. It includes my own deepest scream that grows from the feeling of life itself and extends through my outrage at current political conditions.

All humanity shares aspects of this scream".

 

4^th Annual Conference of TAICP

 

Friday June 13^th, 2008

 

0900-1200            Lecture II          Michael Eigen

 

Coming Through and the Annihilated Self

 

Each of us undergoes some kind of annihilation. Our lives go on over graveyards of the self. We search for ways to come through our own annihilation and ways to go around it or harden in face of it. Religious literature abounds with writings about coming alive in face of our own deadness and self-forgetfulness. We will see what psychoanalysis can add to this perennial journey and what coming through ourselves may mean.

 

1200 – 1400     Lunch Break

 

1400 - 1700                   Lecture III        Michael Eigen

 

 Open

 

Eigen will speak in detail about several of his cases and also analyze aspects of current political life.   He will respond to questions on any topic of concern.

 

Michael Eigen Ph.D. is a psychologist and psychoanalyst. He is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at New York University, and a Senior Member of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of a number of books, including "Feeling Matters" (Karnac, 2006) "Ecstasy" (Wesleyan U.P, 2001), "Toxic Nourishment" (Karnac, 1999) and "The Psychoanalytic Mystic" (FAB, 1998).

 

Aner Govrin Ph.D. is a Cinical Psychologist, a Lecturer at the Department of Hermeneutics at Bar Ilan University and a Member of Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He is the author of “Between Abstinence and Seduction – The Analysis of American Psychoanalysis” (Dvir, 2004).

 

Organizing Committee:

Chana Ullman (Chair), Aya Birger, Aner Govrin, Zipi Meidler, Gabi Mann, Yitzchak Mendelsohn, Orna Kislasy.

REGISTRATION FORM:

Fee for Participation:    $140.00

Early registration fee (until 1.1.2008): 120$

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