EBOR 2025 Plenary 2: The Living Frame: Winnicott and Laplanche in Stereo

Featuring: Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, Michael Levin In this plenary, the frame itself becomes a living instrument. Drawing from Chapter 5 of their book "Here I’m Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis," Peter Goldberg gives voice to Winnicott’s vision of holding and care — what he and his co-authors call induction, the rhythmic groundwork that brings a person into the weave of shared experience. In counterpoint, Michael Levin brings Laplanche into the room, showing how those same gestures of care are inevitably seductive, charged with the adult unconscious that unsettles as much as it sustains. Together, their dialogue — moderated by Adam Blum — reveals how the analytic frame conducts these two forces — steadying and disruptive — into something workable, creative, and alive. The session closes with an extended audience exchange, letting the room feel the living frame in action.