The Guntrip Trust SCIO
in partnership with
The Scottish Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
A Psychoanalytic Dialogue with the Music of Bach
Anthea Gomez (Psychoanalyst) and Sara Trickey (Violinist)
Augustine United Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1EL
Saturday 30th November 2024, 10:30 am – 1:45 pm
Tickets via Eventbrite : £30 / £25 (Students & Unemployed)
Psychoanalysis, with its explorations into the unconscious workings of the earliest manifestations of psychic life, has the unique capacity to enter, imaginatively, the world of music and its creative productions. Music on its side, can inform the work of Psychoanalysis, sharing the same emotional fabric and temporal qualities as psychic life and acting as a container for previously unsymbolized experience.
In a rich and thought-provoking paper, psychoanalyst Anthea Gomez explores the links between the two, using Bach’s Chaconne from the Partita in D minor for solo violin, Hanna Segal’s Theory of Aesthetics and contemporary writings on music and the Unconscious. Musical illustrations of these explorations will be played by violinist Sara Trickey, who will then perform the Chaconne in its entirety.
Afterwards, the audience will be invited to join the conversation and ask questions.
Anthea Gomez is a Fellow of the BPAS and Training Analyst for the Institute of Psychoanalysis. She was Chair of the New Entry Scheme for many years and is currently part of the Training Staff Committee. She has a full-time analytic practice in York. Her background is in music and she studied piano, composition and viola at the Royal Academy of Music. She enjoyed a first career writing music for the theatre and as an in-house composer for BBC Radio Drama, before training as a psychoanalyst.
Sara Trickey enjoys an exciting and diverse career as a solo violinist and chamber musician. Recently, she curated her own project Dancing With Apollo as part of the Spitalfields Festival. This was a multi-media project based around Greek myth, including music for violin and piano, narration and dance. She read Classics at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and this continues to be a passion. She also enjoys teaching, primarily at the Junior Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
The Guntrip Trust SCIO (SC051488) was formed in response to growing concern about levels of stress amongst ministers, in honour of Harry Guntrip, himself a minister and psychotherapist with an international reputation. Crucially, he believed that just as religious ministry needs a dynamic psychology to guide it, so scientific psychotherapy needs what is basically a religious faith in the value and significance of every human being to sustain its endeavour. The Guntrip Trust (http://guntriptrust.com/) exists to advance education and training in the field of human relations and to provide bursary help for people who are fulfilling a designated ministerial role within the Christian church or other faith tradition.
The Scottish Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists is a professional organisation, providing training in adult psychoanalytical psychotherapy. A member organisation of the British Psychoanalytic Council, it provides a range of ongoing CPD events for its membership and access to therapeutic services for members of the public.
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Artwork thanks to Stephen Court
Timetable
10.30 am – 10.40 am
Introduction
Iain Telfer, Chair The Guntrip Trust SCIO
10.40 am – 12.15 pm
‘Pleasing Sorrows and Grateful Terrors; Music and the Psyche’
Anthea Gomez
Bach’s Chaconne
Sara Trickey
12.15 pm – 12.45 pm
Coffee/Tea Break
12.45 pm – 1.45 pm
In conversation
Refreshments provided through Social Bite Edinburgh