In the first part of the event, Michael Eigen will speak about sparks: cracks in our psyche, pieces of life that tickle our souls, and our encounter with self-hatred.

Afterwards, Aner Guvrin and Sharon Ziv-Beiman will hold a live conversation with him on the topic and invite participants to get involved and submit questions via chat.

The focus of the meeting will be on the discussion of aggression against the self, expressed in many forms and diverse consequences, which were, apparently, part of human development. Bion explores this topic in his book Memoir of the Future - a name that expresses these life movements. In the lecture and conversation we will try to absorb this deep dynamic, move with it, and touch, as Wittgenstein says, the corners of forgetting and birth. We will address various sources of human aggression, spanning different dimensions, and try to get to know ourselves in more welcoming ways.

Relevant articles will be sent to readers. Reading them is recommended, but not necessary for participation in the meeting, as the discussion will develop spontaneously and have a life of its own.

Michael Eigen teaches at New York University's Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of thirty books and teaches a weekly seminar on Bion, Winnicott, Lacan, and his own work, which has spanned nearly fifty years.