
Toxic Nourishment and Damaged Bonds in the Work of Michael Eigen
Working with the Obstructive Object
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Toxic Nourishment and Damaged Bonds in the Work of Michael Eigen
Working with the Obstructive Object
About this book
Toxic Nourishment and Damaged Bonds in the Work of Michael Eigen examines Eigen's rich phenomenological work on the Obstructive Object.
The contributors to this collection explore the core theme with reference to key Eigen works, including The Psychotic Core, Psychic Deadness, Toxic Nourishment, and Damaged Bonds. This volume seeks to elaborate on the Obstructive Object through essays and poems that include poignant clinical examples, the impact of exceptionally traumatized patients on their analysts, literature comparisons, and the more "mystical aspect" of Eigen's influence on working with the obstructive object. Essays draw from Virginia Woolf, Elena Ferrante, Wilfred Bion, D.W. Winnicott, Andrè Greene, Christopher Bollas, and Adam Phillips, among many others, in exploring injury-rage, unwanted patients, psychoanalytic faith, toxic nourishment, and damaged bonds.
Toxic Nourishment and Damaged Bonds in the Work of Michael Eigen will greatly interest psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and those interested in psychoanalytic and spiritual psychology.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editors and Contributors
- Introduction
- Foreword
- Morning Blues
- 1 The Obstructive Object
- 2 A Fish in the Stream: Life in Creativity with Virginia Woolf
- 3 Occlusions, Metabolic Excess, and Other Risks to Subject Formation in the Child
- 4 Abraham’s and Isaac’s Fear and Silence
- 5 Grappling with the Obstructive Object in the Neapolitan Novels of Elena Ferrante: A Reflection Based on the Works of Michael Eigen
- 6 Undreamable Dreams
- 7 Impenetrable Obstructive Object: A Poem
- 8 Dreaming a Long Day with Michael Eigen
- 9 Unwanted Nearings and Therapeutic Clearings: Holding on, in a Difficult Encounter, to Michael Eigen’s Clinical Wisdom
- 10 Raging against Love – Surviving Injury-Rage Patients: A Personal Reverie
- 11 Transcendent Intuition: Linking Fragments to Psychic Attunement across Time and Space
- 12 Welcoming Faith, Forgiveness, and Destruction: Being-with Sara
- 13 A Cup of Love
- God by Rachel Berghash
- Index