Primary Process Impacts and Dreaming the Undreamable Object in the Work of Michael Eigen
examines Eigen’s rich phenomenological work on becoming a welcoming object.
The contributors to this collection explore the core theme with reference to key Eigen works including
Feeling Matters
and
Contact with the Depths
. As a primary process psychoanalyst, Eigen’s writing reflects a unique rhythm of faith that is able to "revivify" union-distinction body-affect-thinking potentialities within a creative psychoanalytic dyad. In this book, alongside its companion volume,
Toxic Nourishment and Damaged Bonds in the Work of Michael Eigen
, contemporary Eigen readers and writers articulate the various welcoming processes and attitudes needed to cultivate a "Hearing Heart," a central ingredient in reaching and touching those parts of self-deemed unwanted, unwelcomed, and even traumatized.
represents a wide range of psychoanalytic perspectives, and the chapters describe the genius of Eigen as well as contribute their own clinical and academic acumen.
Presenting a key aspect of Michael Eigen's transformational aesthetic, this book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and all those with an interest in psychoanalytic and spiritual psychology.