This conference will be virtual, using Zoom. Registration will open 30 days prior to the event.
1.5 Continuing Education Credits
I will explore and differentiate the overlaps between analytic and creative process, asking how psychoanalytic terms such as “reverie,” “metaphor”, “gaze” and “evenly suspended, free-floating or hovering attention” apply to both the analytic container and the artist’s workspace. As they each endeavor to capture that which feels most “alive” and “real,” how are the analyst and the artist respectively engaged in “unconscious (dream) thinking” and working at “the frontier?” In tandem with Marina Abramovic’s performance piece “The Artist is Present,” I will investigate the embodied encounters between an artist and the “other” as documented in James Lord’s “A Giacometti Portrait.”
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this program participants will be able to:
1. Differentiate between automatic or implicit mentalizing and controlled or explicit mentalizing, as well as “unconscious (dream) thinking”
2. Discuss the implications of embodied copresence for an artistic or analytic process
3. Distinguish and compare the interpersonal and intra-psychic, conscious /unconscious vectors from C.G. Jung’s diagram from “The Psychology of the Transference
Biography:
Matthias Leutrum is an IAAP certified analyst, a member of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (JPA) in New York City and a visual artist. Born in Stuttgart, Germany, he received his MFA from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France. His work has been exhibited internationally and he has presented at the Art and Psyche in the City conference in New York City (2012), Art and Psyche, Layers and Liminality, Siracusa, Sicily (2015), and Art and Psyche, The Illuminated Imagination, Santa Barbara, CA (2019), as well as the Journal of Analytical Psychology’s Latin America Conference (2021). Email:matthias.leutrum@gmail.com
References:
Abramović, M. (2010). The Artist is Present, MoMA. New York, NY, https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/marina-abramovic-marina-abramovic-the-artist-is-present-2010/
Jung, C. G. (1929).” The Problems of Modern Psychotherapy”. CW 16 (1923).” The Type Problem in Modern Philosophy”. CW 6
Lord, J. (1980) “A Giacometti Portrait”
Luyten, P. & Fonagy, P. (2015). “The Neurobiology of Mentalizing”
McGilchrist, I. (2010). The Master and His Emissary, The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World”
Ogden, T. H. (2001). “Conversations at The Frontier of Dreaming”