The Loss of Pleasure: Attachment Relationship and Loss: A Conversation with Carol Gilligan
In this Webinar:
We avoid the very thing we want – love – for fear of again experiencing a loss that once felt irreparable. Rather than accepting the loss of relationship as inescapable, a healthier response is to feel the sadness and protest the loss. Otherwise, this leads us to the loss of pleasure, which is the marker of an initiation that is felt in the body and experienced as sadness and fear. You can hear this loss in the shift from a relational voice to the patriarchal voices of selfless femininity and detached masculinity. Dr. Carol Gilligan’s theory suggests that listening and providing resonance for the pre-patriarchal human voice is key to psychological and political health – a requisite for love and relationships. In this Webinar, she explores in what ways psychoanalysis, both theoretically and clinically, can provide resonance for healthy personal and political resistance.
Learning Objectives:
- Summarize Dr. Carol Gilligan’s research on development with girls and women and studies with young boys and their fathers
- Apply Bowlby’s three stages of loss response: protest, despair and detachment
- Compare the differences between functional anger “the anger of hope” and dysfunctional anger “the anger of despair”
- Describe how femininity becomes associated with pseudo-relationships (and the silencing of self) and masculinity with pseudo-independence (and the shielding of relationality)
Once payment is received, you will be emailed a full video recording of this webinar along with all presentation materials. Optional CEs (2) may be purchased through R. Cassidy Seminars. You can earn your CEs by watching the webinar and completing an accompanying reading assignment. A link to purchase CE Credits will be included in the email containing all your webinar resources. More Info Here
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Optional CEs (2) may be purchased through R. Cassidy Seminars. A link to purchase CE Credits will be included in the email containing all your webinar resources. More Info Here
About the Presenter
My husband Paul fondly remembers playing with Timothy Gilligan and the kaleidoscope eyepiece getting stuck on his finger.
We have with pleasure encountered Dr Gilligan’s work in many different contexts and still have “In a Different Voice” on our bookshelf.
I will share this with Carol Gilligan. Thanks
Jina