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. Primary Process Impacts and Dreaming the Undreamable Object in the Work of Michael Eigen 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.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
About the Editors and Contributors
Introduction
Foreword
1. Becoming a Welcoming Object: Personal Notes on Michael Eigen’s Impact
Jeffrey L. Eaton
2. The “Hearing Heart” and the Vanishing Scream of Being
Ofra Eshel
3. Welcoming Suchness
Jeffrey L. Eaton
4. The Join and Distinction-Union: A Resonant and Complex Oneness
Adam Shechter
5. Nomad to No-Mad – Welcoming the Psychotic Core: The Primary Process Psychoanalysis of Michael Eigen
Loray Daws
6. The Welcomed Object
Alitta Kullman
7. Welcoming Dreams
Willow Pearson Trimbach
8. Ah, Strawberries!
Shalini Masih
9. Welcoming the Eye/I of the Storm: A Homecoming Story
Epsita Sandhu
10. Listening in with Michael Eigen
Isolde Keilhofer
11. Faces of the Welcoming Object: Musings on Midlife, Madness, and Mysticism -Welcoming and Being Welcomed
Marian Campbell
12. Music as Dreaming: Welcoming Absence through Music
Stephen Bloch
13. Moving to Inner Lights
Ebru Salman
14. Seer, Mystic, Sage: Luminous Presence in the Work of Michael Eigen
Paul DeBlassie
Air Currents by Rachel Berghash
