Main description:

An accessible introduction to the life and work of renowned psychoanalyst Michael Eigen.
Covers key concepts and explains them clearly.
Provides a map of Eigen's background and clinical and theoretical work throughout his life.

Contents:

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