Short Course: Rebirth: Endings and new beginnings in psychoanalytic and Buddhist thought
Rebirth: Endings and new beginnings in psychoanalytic and Buddhist thought
Cyrus Dunham & hannah baerSessions:Saturdays, September 27th, October 4, 11, 18 3-5pm EST, 12-2pm PST
Meets online.
Course Description:
The fantasy of change, becoming someone or something new, rendering ourselves altogether different, animates our lives and choices. We move cities, get new friends, start new careers or take up studies, refiguring ourselves. We can choose new names, change our bodies, move on from the old. These processes of change are intrinsic to life, and yet their exact mechanics and logics are mysterious. How new is the new, how novel is difference, and where does the past go? When we seek rebirth, what are we seeking, and what are the consequences?Some psychoanalytic traditions offer the possibility of a self so analyzed it is disintegrated, reintegrated, or otherwise born anew. Most Buddhist thought proposes rebirth as the very ground of existence, the cycle we are in until we break free from it. In both ways of thinking, the case is made that life itself is a series of repetitions we play out until we don’t. In this course we will explore the idea of rebirth through psychoanalytic and Buddhist lenses, drawing on interdisciplinary texts, clinical and spiritual discourses, and the lived experience of those who attend. We will engage with theories of karma, the unconscious, reincarnation, repetition, regression, and transformation.
Cyrus Dunham is the author of a memoir, A Year Without a Name. He is in training to become a Buddhist chaplain under Lama Justin Von Bujdoss, and is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing & Literature at USC.
hannah baer is a writer and clinical psychologist based in New York. She is the the author of the memoir trans girl suicide museum and the forthcoming nonfiction book Life of the Party. She is a psychoanalytic candidate and a contributing editor to Parapraxis.
Full fee: $450, Reduced fee: $250.
Or contact psychosocial.foundation@gmail.com for scholarship information.
Rebirth: Endings and new beginnings in psychoanalytic and Buddhist thought
Cyrus Dunham & hannah baerSessions:Saturdays, September 27th, October 4, 11, 18 3-5pm EST, 12-2pm PST
Meets online.
Course Description:
The fantasy of change, becoming someone or something new, rendering ourselves altogether different, animates our lives and choices. We move cities, get new friends, start new careers or take up studies, refiguring ourselves. We can choose new names, change our bodies, move on from the old. These processes of change are intrinsic to life, and yet their exact mechanics and logics are mysterious. How new is the new, how novel is difference, and where does the past go? When we seek rebirth, what are we seeking, and what are the consequences?Some psychoanalytic traditions offer the possibility of a self so analyzed it is disintegrated, reintegrated, or otherwise born anew. Most Buddhist thought proposes rebirth as the very ground of existence, the cycle we are in until we break free from it. In both ways of thinking, the case is made that life itself is a series of repetitions we play out until we don’t. In this course we will explore the idea of rebirth through psychoanalytic and Buddhist lenses, drawing on interdisciplinary texts, clinical and spiritual discourses, and the lived experience of those who attend. We will engage with theories of karma, the unconscious, reincarnation, repetition, regression, and transformation.
Cyrus Dunham is the author of a memoir, A Year Without a Name. He is in training to become a Buddhist chaplain under Lama Justin Von Bujdoss, and is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing & Literature at USC.
hannah baer is a writer and clinical psychologist based in New York. She is the the author of the memoir trans girl suicide museum and the forthcoming nonfiction book Life of the Party. She is a psychoanalytic candidate and a contributing editor to Parapraxis.
Full fee: $450, Reduced fee: $250.
Or contact psychosocial.foundation@gmail.com for scholarship information.
Rebirth: Endings and new beginnings in psychoanalytic and Buddhist thought
Cyrus Dunham & hannah baerSessions:Saturdays, September 27th, October 4, 11, 18 3-5pm EST, 12-2pm PST
Meets online.
Course Description:
The fantasy of change, becoming someone or something new, rendering ourselves altogether different, animates our lives and choices. We move cities, get new friends, start new careers or take up studies, refiguring ourselves. We can choose new names, change our bodies, move on from the old. These processes of change are intrinsic to life, and yet their exact mechanics and logics are mysterious. How new is the new, how novel is difference, and where does the past go? When we seek rebirth, what are we seeking, and what are the consequences?Some psychoanalytic traditions offer the possibility of a self so analyzed it is disintegrated, reintegrated, or otherwise born anew. Most Buddhist thought proposes rebirth as the very ground of existence, the cycle we are in until we break free from it. In both ways of thinking, the case is made that life itself is a series of repetitions we play out until we don’t. In this course we will explore the idea of rebirth through psychoanalytic and Buddhist lenses, drawing on interdisciplinary texts, clinical and spiritual discourses, and the lived experience of those who attend. We will engage with theories of karma, the unconscious, reincarnation, repetition, regression, and transformation.
Cyrus Dunham is the author of a memoir, A Year Without a Name. He is in training to become a Buddhist chaplain under Lama Justin Von Bujdoss, and is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing & Literature at USC.
hannah baer is a writer and clinical psychologist based in New York. She is the the author of the memoir trans girl suicide museum and the forthcoming nonfiction book Life of the Party. She is a psychoanalytic candidate and a contributing editor to Parapraxis.
Full fee: $450, Reduced fee: $250.
Or contact psychosocial.foundation@gmail.com for scholarship information.