The Harry Guntrip Psychotherapy Trust
The Harry Guntrip Psychotherapy Trust
Authors of our own authority
by
Dr. Michael Parsons
Saturday February 25th
at
Magnum Suite, Leeds City Hilton
Neville Street, Leeds LS1 4BX
9.30am – 1.30pm
Full fee £55, Concessionary fee (students) £45
Discussant: Dr. Elizabeth Gibb
Chair: Mrs. Susanna Bailey
Authority can be considered from external and internal viewpoints. External authorities, political and institutional, may be benign or repressive, and the same applies to internal authorities such as the superego. The internal world is the concern of analysts, but external authority matters for its possible effect on people’s authority over their own internal worlds. The nature of internal authority is complex. The superego is in fact an external authority that has been internalized. The ego, with its perpetual compliance towards the id, superego and external reality, operates like a False Self in the psyche. In Lacanian terms it is by its nature alienated from itself. By contrast, the True Self as described by Winnicott, and the ‘subject’ as theorized particularly in French psychoanalysis, represent an authentic conscience which allows us to become the authors of our own authority. Clinical and non-clinical (including musical) examples show that this inevitably involves renunciation, and a continual readiness to let go of apparent certainties.
Michael Parsons is a training analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and a member of the French Psychoanalytic Association. He is well known in the UK and internationally as a teacher and lecturer, with a particular interest in links between psychoanalysis and other fields such as art, literature, philosophy and religion. He is the author of The Dove that Returns, the Dove that Vanishes: Paradox and Creativity in Psychoanalysis (Routledge 2000) and Living Psychoanalysis: From Theory to Experience (Routledge 2014).
Elizabeth Gibb is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society who lives and practices in Cumbria. She is the Clinical Lead for the Institute of Psychoanalysis Clinical Services North which is based in Leeds. Before moving back up to the North of England she was a Consultant Medical Psychotherapist in the Adult Department of the Tavistock Clinic in London and has worked in the NHS for many years as well as in private practice.
Susanna Bailey is a retired member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and lives in Leeds
Timetable of Events
9.30 a.m. - 10.00 a.m. Registration and coffee
10.00 a.m. - 10.10 a.m. Introduction by the Chair of the Harry Guntrip Trust
10.10 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. Paper by Dr. Parsons and initial questions and discussion
11.30 a.m. – 12.00 p.m. Coffee
12.00 p.m. -1.30 p.m. Response from Dr. Gibb and further discussion.
Authors of our own Authority
Magnum Suite, Leeds City Hotel, Neville Street, Leeds LS1 4BX
Saturday February 25th 2017
9.30 -1.30
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