Course Description:
Dr. Corbatta will start with the question, “What is the relationship between intimacy and sexuality, body and gender?” and will apply it to the work of the Argentine writer Luisa Valenzuela, especially to her Diaries of New York. Using a psychoanalytic approach based upon ideas from Freud, Winnicott, Bollas, and many others, Dr. Corbatta will analyze Valenzuela’s text under the category of auto fiction. She will be dealing with a recurrent pattern in the protagonist’s love relationships: fear of rejection, initial fantasy of merging with the other, fear of engulfment and abandonment, and ambivalent feelings of love and hate.
Practice Gap/Need and Course Description:
Many patients have serious problems in intimacy and sexuality. Many therapists and mental health practitioners have theoretical knowledge of gender, sexuality, and the capacity for intimacy, but not how these concepts are inter-related in a real life and how to apply them to patients who have problems with sexuality and intimacy.
After attending, this presentation, participants will be able to:
1. Discuss recurrent patterns of love relationships, using this work of auto-fiction.
2. Discuss the relationships between intimacy and sexuality and between body and gender.
Course Link: http://www.mpi-mps.org
CE Value (credits): 2
CE Type: Standard
Sponsor Name:
Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute
Contact Information:
Monica Evans
248-851-3380
monicasimmons@ix.netcom.com