Michael Eigen

This insightful book critically reviews and presents an accessible introduction to the life and work of one of the most celebrated modern psychoanalysts, Michael Eigen.

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Loray Daws is a registered Clinical Psychologist in South Africa and British Columbia, Canada. He is currently in private practice and serves as Senior Faculty Member at the International Masterson Institute in New York, and specializes in psychoanalysis and daseinsanalysis. He is the editor of 4 books in psychoanalysis and existential analysis.

Inhalt

Section 1: Being with Eigen, 1. Introduction to healing, longing and the ever-healing wound, 2. The primal background of experience: Eigen and his primary imaginal Others, 3. Eigen's Area of Faith: Prominent theorists as background support, Section 2: Clinical Eigen, 4. The Psychotic Core and coming into Being: Eigen's primordial horizon, 5. Psychic deadness: scaling mount shock, damanged phantasy pumps, and the need for psycho-dialysis, 6. In the beginning... there was nourishment trauma, 7. Eigen's radiant affective triptych: emotional storms in ecstacy, rage and lust, 8. Faith and transformation: Eigen the psychoanalytic mystic, 9. Epilogue: Eigen's love