Love and its distortions: exaltation and cynicism - Mike Brearley, OBE
Wednesday 11 May 2011, 18:00 until 19:00
Open to all
Location
Main Lecture Theatre, Clerici building, Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane site
Details
Honorary Graduate Lecture
In his work as a psychoanalyst and in everyday life, Mike is struck by how often we all distort our emotions, turning something which is really of one kind into something else. This is liable to happen with all our emotions. We can turn anger into compliance, or jealousy into false admiration. We may become irritable instead of being embarrassed.
These conversions are not only a matter of oscillations in feeling; we may be quite unaware of the underlying emotion – the anger, the jealousy, the embarrassment. Such shifts of the mind, especially when they become systemic, affect our identity, making us less fully ourselves.
Mike Brearley is a former England cricket captain and is now a psychoanalyst, having qualified in 1985. His main work is and has been in private practice, but he also does some teaching, supervision, writing and lecturing. He is currently President of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Mike was awarded an Honorary Degree by Brookes in 2006.
