Commentaries on the Work of Michael Eigen is an accessible and engaging introduction to this ground-breaking psychoanalytic sage. Through exploration of Eigen’s two key texts, The Psychotic Core and Emotional Storm, the author addresses universal human concerns of madness and the difficulties of our emotional life.
In conversational style, the book mirrors Eigen's chapter-by-chapter approach, focusing on and amplifying important aspects of each work. Bagai follows threads of several key themes from psychoanalysis, philosophy, literature, religious thought, and the humanities, and chapters include discussion of relevant theory from Freud, Jung, Klein, Winnicott, Bion, Buber, and Levinas, among others. Rather than a comprehensive or systematic exegesis of Eigen's work, Bagai’s commentary expands nodal aspects, illuminating and probing seminal themes and ideas. Through clinical case examples, the author explores intertwining of mind and body, self and the other using an array of carefully selected quotes from Eigen's kaleidoscopic vision.
Commentaries on the Work of Michael Eigen will be essential reading for psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, as well as anyone seeking a greater understanding of Eigen’s work.
Author(s): Robin Bagai
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 218
City: London
Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Credits
Introduction
Part One Commentaries On The Psychotic Core
Commentary #1 The Core of Psychosis
Comments and Responses
Commentary #2 Hallucination, Idealization, and Wish-Fulfillment
Comments and Responses
Commentary #3 Hallucination, Megalomania, and Emotional Pain
Comments and Responses
Commentary #4 Phenomenology, Evasion, and the Primacy of Experience
Sketches of Two Case Studies
Comments and Responses
Commentary #5 Mindlessness
Commentary #6 Boundaries
Our Ambiguous Starting Point
The Permeable Self and the Concept of Undifferentiation
Comments and Responses
Commentary #7 Hate, Fear, and Aggression
Comments and Responses
Commentary #8 Hate, Self-Hatred, and the Death Drive
On Self-Hatred
Comments and Responses
Commentary #9 Epistemology and Reversal
Comments and Responses
Commentary #10 Schreber and Rena
Comments and Responses
Commentary #11 The Psychotic Self
Unintegration
Comments and Responses
Commentary #12 Unintegration, Madness, Suicide, and Epilogue
The Human Face: a “Containerless Container”
Comments and Responses
References, Part One
Part Two Commentaries On Emotional Storm
Commentary #1 Inside the Storm
Comments and Responses
Commentary #2 Emotional Storms
Comments and Responses
Commentary #3 More Emotional Storms
Comments and Responses
Commentary #4 Smiles and Screams
Comments and Responses
Commentary #5 No Amount of Suffering
Comments and Responses
Commentary #6 Somatic Storms
Comments and Responses
Commentary #7 Dream Images
Comments and Responses
Commentary #8 Killers Within Life and Psyche
Comments and Responses
Commentary #9 Killers in Dreams
Commentary #10 Training Wheels
Comments and Responses
Commentary #11 The Binding
Comments and Responses
Commentary #12 Guilt, Suffering, and Transformation
Comments and Responses
Commentary #13 Guilt, Care, and Afterword
Comments and Responses
References, Part Two
Index
