IFCAPP Members Meeting and Clinical Presentation

10.00a.m – 1.00p.m.

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Margaret Boyle Spelman cordially invites you to the launch of

Winnicott’s Babies and Winnicott’s Patient

and

The Evolution of Winnicott’s Thinking: examining the growth of psychoanalytic thought over threegenerations

On Thursday 15^th May 2014 at 6.00-9.00p.m

Launch and Cheese & Wine Reception

In PSI Training Suite, Floor 2, Grantham House,

 Grantham Street, Dublin 2

RSVP amdpsy@nullgmail.com 

Presentations on Winnicott and the two Winnicott books being launched:

6.15p.m.                     Mary Pyle (IFPP/ICP)

7.00p.m.                     Ann Murphy (IFPP/ICP)

7.15p.m.                     Michelo del Monte (IFPP/ICP/PSI)

7.30p.m.                     John O’ Connor (PSI)

7.45-8.00p.m.            Margaret Boyle

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The Irish Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Spring/Summer Seminar Series 2014

 (01) 2722928

The Irish Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy is delighted to

announce the Spring/Summer Seminar Series 2014.

Tuesday evenings, 6.30pm – 7.45pm

April 22, 29; May 6, 13, 20, 27; June 2, 9 2014

This series of eight lectures examines the theoretical development of psychoanalytic thinking through the work of Freud, Klein, Bion, Lacan and Winnicott. The lectures provide an introduction to the principal concepts of psychoanalysis, the most fundamental being that of the unconscious, which proposes that there are feelings, wishes and phantasies that lie outside our awareness. The course considers how psychoanalytic thinking can offer a way of understanding human experience and human suffering, and how it functions as a treatment that privileges the uniqueness and individuality of each person. It looks at dreaming, relationships, and creativity, examines the impact of loss and trauma and the particular patterns that emerge from childhood and continue to affect our lives throughout adulthood.

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THE IRISH INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY

107 LOWER BAGGOT STREET, DUBLIN 2

In this workshop, James Merrigan (artist and art critic) will look at art through the theoretical lens of psychoanalysis. Since the 1980s, the rise of psychoanalytic and feminist theory as interpretative strategies for art has been exponential in comparison to other theoretical approaches. Although not always credited, Freud still lurks behind the artwork and artist, oftentimes disguised under the linguistics of Jacques Lacan. Without psychoanalytic theory we would not consider the intersubjective relationship between the artist, artwork and spectator. Arguments for and against the unconscious being an agent in the creative act will be discussed, alongside the correlation between art and madness, art and trauma, art for art’s sake vs. expression, the symptom and sublimation of art, artist envy, and the artwork as ‘lack’ (lack = desire).

The workshop will be spread over four classes, starting on Saturday 8 February 2014 (from 10am – 1pm), and continuing on the 22 February, 8 and 22 March. Participants will be asked to read prescribed texts prior to each class, which will be discussed and then expanded upon with the use of videos that model contemporary art practice and theory in relation to psychoanalysis. Although pre-Modernist art is where psychoanalysis began its journey into the psyche of the artist with Freud’s essays on Leonardo and Michelangelo, these workshops will primarily discuss Modernist and Postmodernist art, from Marcel Duchamp to Miroslaw Balka, with some hindsight analysis on the art of the distant past.

Biography

James Merrigan is an artist and art critic. As an art critic his main focus lies in writing and distributing art criticism outside of standard frameworks. From early on, psychoanalytic theory has informed the basis of his approach to art-making and conceptualising

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