Marilia Aisenstein will show how the psychoanalytical approach and the writing of fiction share the power to transform human psychological experience, to change the very essence of our being in the world. By referencing masterpieces of literature and presenting clinical vignettes, Ms. Aisenstein will demonstrate the intersubjective processes that are based in the unconscious. She will explore how clinical experiences and the experience of reading fiction rely on creative mentalization and transform an individual’s personal understanding of their inner life. In her discussion of clinical case material, she will show how the analyst can transform “lifeless discourses” and “reanimate them” using metaphoric language.

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