This presentation was delivered live over zoom on December 4th 2020 at our annual academic symposium. Michael was a third-year student at Ikon at the time of recording. This talk is the result of his personal final research project.
ABSTRACT:
This presentation will explore how the unconscious is created by an artificial division between mind and body, and man and nature, through the theory of Enactive Cognition; ultimately explicating a perspective of the unconscious as being a fundamentally embodied process. This proposal aims to transform the theory of the unconscious from an inert theoretical concept, into an intimate aspect of our immediate reality, through re-situating the unconscious as a living process that is actively constituted by the sensate awareness of the body, with vast implications for our conceptualisation of mental health and the human psyche, with the singularity of the self, and for conceiving therapy as a process of embodiment.
Michael Schibeci, Bachelor of Counselling and Psychotherapy