I Have to Think These Things Up: Imagination, Differentiation, and Defense at Grey Gardens

by Jon Dimond, Phd

• Location: Virtual

• Source: New Orleans - Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center

“We will attempt to read this documentary as a narrative representation of the imaginative world of the home’s occupants, returning to cyclical memories of loss, thwarted ambition, and an aching desire for security and love. We will also focus on the ways in which humor and intimacy create opportunities to both connect with and wound others. Participants will additionally be invited to link these observations and insights to their own work with patients contending with overly fused relationships, attempts at individuation, decay, and the precarity of the lifespan.”