The basic questions that this talk is going to orbit around are via three satellites

reflecting on it in terms of existential questions of who we are and what we are.

Then very briefly, brief foray into how we might think of theoretical inquiries about who we are and what we are, how they're

related to those existential ones, and then even briefer in a way that will be completely

disappointing to this audience, and probably very wrong, briefly, some reflections on

what in the world do these theoretical questions and existential questions have to do with

clinical practices and what's

their relationship. And I hope I can finish early because I'm sure I have a lot more to learn from all of you

and both what you've observed, what you're reading about, and what some of you have probably

already doing in terms of your practices. So begin with an existential question. It's maybe not quite to the depths of the basement of the soul,

as some existential questions are, one will come to, but just a basic existing question right now.

Why are you here?

Just not in a kind of silly way in which I just asked it, but thinking about it in a more deeper way of where does it fit within the scheme of your life? Later tonight, if you have dinner, you might talk about it, especially if it's

a particularly terrible talk. What would be your justification for having skipped something

else and chosen to go to this? Is it just something you're going to forget about after this,

and it doesn't really matter? As many talks that you perhaps attend or other things that you do,

where do things like what we're doing now fit within the place of your life?

Are they part of the curriculum, part of what it is as steps along the way to

fulfillment of either a career or maybe you consider your studies now,

aspects of your vocation.

So how do they fit? What kind of existential reasons would you give? Things that fit

into the big narrative story of your life. And how would you situate them? How do they fit within

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