Dr. Peter Maduro will present a paper now provisionally entitled, "In Defense of Illusion", which examines the generative role of the imagination in the human person's tolerance of existential anxiety and terror (Angst). William Coburn, Ph.D.. will discuss Dr. Maduro's paper presentation, and offer his own distinctive thoughts on the topic of affect-tolerance from his distinctive psychoanalytic complexity perspective. The panel will be moderated by Mary Sussillo, LCSW.