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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Play, illusion, Reality, and Trauma: What Can a Psychoanalyst Learn from Charlie Chaplin?

Play, illusion, Reality, and Trauma: What Can a Psychoanalyst Learn from Charlie Chaplin?

Brok, Albert

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ArtistsFilm & Video Art

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 1949093522
ISBN13: 9781949093520
Publisher: Ipbooks
Published: Feb 26 2020
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This work presents some thoughts on Play, Illusion, Reality, and Trauma in relation to the process between patient and analyst. A creative part of our journey in this discussion includes a look at the long career of Charlie Chaplin, in terms of his relationship with his audience as a metaphor for the analyst as audience to his patient and vice versa. Patient and analyst, audience and artist, are mutually and hopefully salubriously intertwined as involved witnesses with each other's communication, be they verbal or non-verbal. The level at which these communications are reacted to, the attributions made about them, the connectiveness created, and the therapeutic value derived in the case of analysis, depends on many idiosyncratic factors, both external and internal to the participants involved. I will provide some examples of these factors, both clinical and artistic. In the process, I will define and elaborate the clinical relevancy of play and the concept of a Playing Alliance vs Working Alliance, as well as the irrelevancy of play at certain moments therapeutically. I will also discuss the idea of an aesthetic therapeutic contract and the differentiation of enactments from what I have come to term actments, (Brok 2014, 2016), as well as the paradox of reality, illusion and the effects of trauma in human experience.

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