Bearing the unthinkable and thinking the unbearable: Violence, creativity and couple relationships - 28.03.09 - Tickets still available
Posted: 18,03,2009
This paper explores the impact that violence in couple relationships has on the ability to be creative. In particular, it addresses specific difficulties in the ability to mourn when both love and violence come from the same source. It draws on psychoanalytic writing about the impact of the Argentinian death squads on surviving partners, and on the poems of Cervantes Prize winner Juan Gelman that work through the State kidnap and murder of his son and pregnant daughter-in-law, and Gelman's subsequent discovery of a granddaughter, born in captivity and given to a policeman's family in Uruguay. The paper addresses the 'unthinkable tenderness' (Gelman) needed to keep the unbearable in mind so that creative mourning can occur.
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