Acclaimed Winnicott scholar Dodi Goldman will offer us an intriguing account of the psyche’s work of imaginative elaboration. Why does the world feel one way when we are imaginatively alive to it and quite another when we
are not? How does one both imagine and see things as they are? What happens when we cannot do so? Dr. Goldman will present evocative visual images – a prehistoric figurine, a Hindu lithograph, an Italian etching, an Inuit statue, a painting by Magritte, and more-for us to imagine together; revealing unexpected connections and novel insights into what enlivens experience to make the personal landscape shimmer.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Dodi Goldman is Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute. His new book is The Shimmering Landscape: The Imaginative and Actual in Psychic Life andhis previous books include In Search of the Real and A Beholder’s Share: Essays on Winnicott and the Clinical Imagination, which won the 2017 Gradiva Award for Best Book in Psychoanalysis.
