Black holes, worrying strangeness and transformation

The “black hole” is a signifer that pervades contemporary experience, conveying the “gaps” and “voids” in Western culture and psyche. Art, literature, philosophy, science and psycho-analysis have variously articulated this frighteningly potent, yet elusive signifer. A many-sided, dialogical process best provides acquaintance with such a complex phenomenon. Multiple examples and perspectives, as well as a clinical case, will delineate some of its dimensions. They will show that such “black holes” encounters are not merely negative, but are often the enigmatic source of new awereness and creation.