Connections and Conversation is a free monthly Zoom meeting, cultivating creativity and freedom of thought and feeling. We invite you to engage with our presenters and community as they share their interests and passions in conversation on current topics in psychoanalysis.

This free event that alternates times. The meeting often begins with a 45 minute presentation followed by 45 minutes of conversation. When an event is recorded you can access the recording at the vault.

This series is open to all.

In case of questions please contact: [email protected]

Containers act in myriad ways upon our mental states and take a wide range of forms, from another’s mind, to religion, to digital experience. Dr. Levy will present her expanded conceptualization of containers—an elaboration of the work Bion, Ferro and Bollas initiated on transformational experience—arguing that there is great value in attending to our container selections. When we notice the container(s) we are using at any given time, our attention is trained on the present moment. We wake up to it and to our influence over it. Allowing us to ask, ‘Is this the container I need?’ Though we do not like to think about it, or to conceive of it this way, humanity is becoming increasingly reliant on new containers in the form of Artificial Intelligence and digital life. While born of human intention and human control, AI containers are now capable of independent reasoning and action and of offering us unprecedented transformational possibilities. How do we feel about these developments and how do we respond? Join us for this important discussion of present-day container choices.

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