BRITISH PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION PRESENTS:
The popular short story series convened by Basil Lawrence at Waterstones completes its season with: “The Things They Carried” by
by Tim O’Brien’
Presented by Christopher Hauke
15 June, 7:30pm to 9:00pm
William Timothy O’Brien was born in 1946 in Austin, Minnesota, and is best known for his novel, The Things They Carried (1990). The stories were inspired by his experiences in the Vietnam War.
O’Brien won the 1979 National Book Award for Going After Cacciato, and in 1995 In the Lake of the Woods won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction. O’Brien notes that ‘a good piece of fiction, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders, our contradictions, our endless quest for understanding. [They] do not resolve the mysteries of the human spirit … [they] describe and expand upon those mysteries. O’Brien teaches creative writing at Texas State University–San Marcos.
Christopher Hauke is a Jungian analyst in private practice, Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, a writer and a filmmaker. His films include the documentaries One Colour Red and Green Ray and the psychological drama Again which was premiered at the IAAP congress in Montreal in 2010. www.christopherhauke.com
All stories in this series can be found in The Granta Book of the American Short Story (vol. 1) edited by Richard Ford; available for purchase at Waterstones.
This session will be chaired and supported by Basil Lawrence
SAP Public Programme Jung & Literature Series Convenor: Louise Dymoke
External Co-Convenor: Basil Lawrence
26 Highgate High Street,
London N6 5JG
Tuesday, June 14, 2016 – Sunday, June 19, 2016
Private Viewing, Tuesday, June 14, 2016
The Boundary Gallery at Highgate Contemporary Art will be showing a collection of Modern British and Contemporary Art paintings, works on paper, limited edition graphics and sculpture.
The Boundary Gallery, is still actively involved in the art world, mostly showing at art fairs. In addition, it will be showcasing its collection together with the Fine Art Consultancy from the 14th to 19th June at Highgate Contemporary Art.
The Boundary Gallery concentrates on two schools of painting; Modern British and Contemporary figurative with strong composition, something to say, good draughtsmanship and a brilliant palette. Included among the Modern British artists will be Bomberg, Gotlib, Epstein, Kramer, Meninsky, Herman and Wolmark. Davina Jackson, Pacheco, Louden will also be among the contemporary artists.
The Boundary Gallery’s Agi Katz, has forty years experience in the art world and she advises, curates, and does valuations of collections for individuals and companies.
The Joyce Girl is a prize-winning debut novel that tells the story of Joyce’s only daughter, Lucia. A dancer in 1920s Paris, Lucia had affairs with Samuel Beckett and Alexander Calder, before her father sent her to Switzerland for pioneering psychoanalysis with Carl Jung. Considered by some scholars to be a Muse for Finnegans Wake, she spent the next fifty years, until her death, living in a Northampton mental asylum. The novel, which has been sold to publishers across the world, can be pre-ordered at https://www.waterstones.
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The next meeting of the SAP Literature study series is Wednesday 17.02.16. This series is beautifully organised and facilitated by Salon friend and novelist, Basil Lawrence.
by Elizabeth Urban
07:30pm to 09:00pm
For details & registration: http://www.thesap.org.uk/events/in-time-which-made-a-monkey-of-us-all-presented-by-elizabeth-urban/
Grace Payley was born to Ukranian immigrant parents in New York City in 1992. In the early 1940s, Paley studied with W.H. Auden at the New School for Social Research, after which she taught creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College for two decades from the late ’60s. Her first collection of short stories was published in 1959, and one of the stories, ‘Goodbye and Good Luck’ was adapted as a musical in 1989.
On the subject of writing, Paley had this to say to the Paris Review: ‘The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don’t live with a lover or roommate who doesn’t respect your work. Don’t lie, buy time, borrow to buy time. Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.’
Elizabeth Urban is a training analyst with the SAP and a member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists. Her clinical experience has included all age groups, although over time she has specialised in parent-infant research, and has worked in the community with parents and their babies and an in-patient perinatal mental health unit. Currently she is in private practice with adults and supervises trainees.
All stories in this series can be found in The Granta Book of the American Short Story (vol. 1) edited by Richard Ford; available for purchase at Waterstones.
This session will be chaired and supported by Basil Lawrence
©Trustees of the Wallace Collection
About the painting
Antoine Watteau’s Fête Galante in a Wooded Landscape, c. 1719-21
can be found on the Ground Floor of the Wallace Collection in the Billiard Room (painting ref P391).
This painting is a major example of Watteau’s Fêtes Galantes, seemingly harmless idealised depictions of outdoor gatherings, a genre seen by contemporaries as a Utopian image of love and sociability, depicting an unattainable ideal. The relationships between the protagonists are intentionally left open, identifiable couples are avoided, sexual desire is latently present and ironically commented on. The work was painted without a commission for an open market leaving a larger role to the artist’s own personality. Nothing is known from contemporary sources about Watteau’s love life, except his extreme shyness.
Dr Vogtherr and Prof Schaverien will introduce Antoine Watteau and describe its significance for culture and emotional development. They will use this particular painting, which will be projected in the auditorium, as a springboard for discussion; audience questions, responses and ideas are welcomed to help navigate the challenges of the work.
Attendees are free to go and view the painting on the Gallery wall either before or after the talk.
There is no expectation of previous study or work with the painting, or in the academic tradition.
This session will be chaired and supported by Basil Lawrence
SAP Public Programme Jung & Art Series Convenor: Jay Barlow
External Co-Convenor: Basil Lawrence
Tickets : £10
For booking and more information: http://www.thesap.org.uk/calendar/375/220-An-Exploration-of-Antoine-Watteau-s-F-te-Galante-in-a-Wooded-Landscape
On Saturday 12 September 2015, City Lit will host a celebration of published writers, poets and academics from City Lit and beyond.
On the same weekend, we will also be hosting the Seventh International George Moore Conference – and some of the talks from the conference are also included in the Literary Festival programme (the opening talks are on the evening of Friday 11 September).
Lots of interesting talks and presentations– including(for those who can’t get enough of Joyce) :
Saturday 12 September
10:30
Toby Brothers: Ulysses and What should not be said…
What is obscene?
The banning of James Joyce’s Ulysses between 1922 through the 1930s opened up conversations on the nature of art, the role of censorship and the reading public’s ability to respond to highly provocative literary content. Appropriate for both readers and not-yet-readers of Joyce.
More details: http://www.citylit.ac.uk/blog/city-lit-literary-festival-2015
Salonista Agi Katz, owner of the Boundary Art Gallery, is exhibiting this weekend…here are the details:
20/21 BRITISH ART FAIR
9 – 13 September 2015
at the Royal College of Art
London SW7 2EU
(next to the Royal Albert Hall)
Once again, we are exhibiting at the prestigious 20/21 British Art Fair at The Royal College of Art 9-13 September (stand 33a) Some pictures, never shown before, will enliven our stand.
They represent the same criteria as before, full of expression, wonderful colours and of course, good composition. Among this is a very early work by Anthony Whishaw RA, which has been hanging in my home for numerous years as well as a later work which was part of a series called Las Meninas. He used a restricted palette for both.
Another painting, never exhibited by the Boundary Gallery, by Timothy Hyman, RA entitled Dr Faustus at the Fortune Theatre, shows his passion for the theatre . It was exhibited at the Nottingham Castle Museum in 1987.
“To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing — the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one’s hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping“During those days Fingerbone was strangely transformed. If one should be shown odd fragments arranged on a silver tray and be told, ‘That is a splinter from the True Cross, and that is a nail paring dropped by Barabbas, and that is a bit of lint from under the bed where Pilate’s wife dreamed her dream,’ the very ordinariness of the things would recommend them. Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy. So shoes are worn and hassocks are sat upon and finally everything is left where it was and the spirit passes on, just as the wind in the orchard picks up the leaves from the ground as if there were no other pleasure in the world but brown leaves, as if it would deck, clothe, flesh itself in flourishes of dusty brown apple leaves, and then drop them all in a heap at the side of the house and goes on. So Fingerbone, or such relics of it as showed above the mirroring waters, seemed fragments of the quotidian held up to our wondering attention, offered somehow as proof of their own significance.”
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