Bits of Psyche

Selected Seminars by Michael Eigen

Michael Eigen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032658933
• eBook ISBN: 9781003859772
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychoanalysis
• Index: Psychology

This book includes material from Michael Eigen's celebrated and long-running seminar series, to explore some of the classic and contemporary key concepts in psychoanalytic theory and practice.

Drawing on the work of Winnicott, Bion and Lacan, Eigen explores key psychoanalytic themes which have risen to prominence over the last decade such as the place of politics in psychoanalysis, life, death and psychic deadness, and the role of lies and deception in the consulting room and our world.

With over 50 years of experience in leading seminars and working psychoanalytically, Eigen's work is essential reading for all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword by Keri Cohen
• Introduction
• 1 Dead, Dread, Deflected and Little Bits of Grace: [Working with Chapter 4, “Trauma Clots” in Feeling Matters 2015]
• 2 Bits of Bion and Multiple Undercurrents
• 3 Tiny I-bits and Big Ones Too: [Working with Chapter 6 “Shame” in Image, Sense, Infinities and Everyday Life]
• 4 After the Election: Between Truth and Lies and More
• 5 A Near Christmas Meeting: [Working with Chapter 6 “Shame” in Image, Sense, Infinities and Everyday Life]
• 6 Playing With Bion: Gifts and Dreads of Our Problematic Psyche
• 7 A Bit of Madness
• Index