Where We Dwell: Lacan and Language, Heidegger and Home
Presented by Christine Oliver, Ed.M., LICSW
How do we create a home for/of ourselves in the world? Why is this so important, what might it cost, and how do we strive to negotiate and inhabit the tensions which might arise between these two? This presentation seeks to engage thoughts on the defenses, personal experience, and aspects of the works of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Lacan as avenues for exploration of these fundamental questions.
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CEs available for LMHC and LICSW
Christine Oliver is a psychotherapist and clinical social worker who practices community mental health at an outpatient clinic at the Cambridge Health Alliance, and who practices and supervises at the Counseling Center at Wheelock College in Boston. Previously an organic farmer who worked with homeless adults, her loves include the outdoors, poetry, and myriad ways people strive to make a home for themselves in the world.
Discussant for this event will be NECET member Bob Fox
March 2, 2008
Noon to 3:00 p.m.
Andover-Newton Theological School
Peck Faculty Lounge in Stoddard Hall
Newton Centre, Massachusetts
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