In this seminar we will experience and reflect on the regularities that appear in these psychoanalytic, dynamic, comprehensive approaches to human expression.
Psychoanalysis seeks meaning more than motive, experience more than causation.
The seminar process will evolve from these small groups, always contrasting divergent perspectives. Comparisons will be made between Ursula Hegi's epic novel Stones from the River and historian Saul Friedlander's thoughts on a psychoanalytic history of the same period and his own memoir When Memory Comes. And always we will be seeking the psychoanalytic fundamentals in the actual practice of therapy, biography, history, and drama. In pursuit of this objective, we will play with memory, representation, symbols, words. Writing Lives, Principia Biographica.