Full Description
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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Editors and the Contributors
Toxic Nourishment and Damaged Bonds in the Work of Michael Eigen: Working with the Obstructive Object and Primary Process Impacts
Foreword
Morning Blues
1. The Obstructive Object
Jeffrey L. Eaton
2. A Fish in the Stream: Life in Creativity with Virginia Woolf
Meg Harris Williams
3. Occlusions, Metabolic Excess, and Other Risks to Subject Formation in the Child.
Michael O'Laughlin and Mila C. Kristie
4. Abraham's and Isaac's Fear and Silence
Louis Rothschild
5. Grappling with the Obstructive Object in the Neapolitan Novels of Elena Ferrante: A Reflection Based on the Works of Michael Eigen
Marlene Goldsmith
6. Undreamable Dreams
Françoise Davoine
7. Impenetrable Obstructive Object: A Poem
Robin Bagai
8. Dreaming a Long Day With Michael Eigen
Stefanie Teitelbaum
9. Unwanted Nearings and Therapeutic Clearings: Holding on, in a Difficult Encounter, to Michael Eigen's Clinical Wisdom
David Smith
10. Raging against Love - Surviving Injury-Rage Patients: A Personal Reverie
Richard Raubolt
11. Transcendent Intuition: Linking Fragments to Psychic Attunement across Time and Space
Keri Cohen
12. Welcoming Faith, Forgiveness, and Destruction: Being-with Sara
Brent Potter
13. A Cup of Love
Gagandeep Kaur Ahluwalia
God by Rachel Berghash
