Minding the gap: Touching time with Winnicott, Jung and Lacan

This lecture explores the dynamics of presence and absence in the psychotherapeutic experience.

For Jung the transcendent informs the ground of our being and he writes of the religious instinct as central to the process of individuation. In his experience the neuroses would always point to spiritual problems both individually and collectively, while Winnicott formulates an intermediate area of experience that he names the transitional. This imaginal space is foundational to the capacity to live a creative life to contribute towards culture and encounter religion. Lacan, however, puts into his psychoanalytic practice an iconoclastic approach that seems akin to that of a Zen Buddhist roshi, intent on exposing our ignorance as a way towards a lived experience of the truth.

All three share a passion for the immaterial or rather how material the immaterial is. By focusing on the phenomenon of Time in their work I seek to draw out their different, yet shared preoccupations for the importance of Revelation as they practise within the temenos of the consulting room.

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