Advocating a call to the return to the spiritual in psychoanalysis, Michael Eigen illustrates his writing with the work of Bion, Milner and Winnicott.
Each has the chance to use their minds and feelings creativ.
Both patient and analyst are immersed in each other and this immersion restores and enriches, and drains.
Like Bion, he explicitly relates psychoanalysis to faith.
Here he expands on his call to celebrate and explore the meaning of mystical experience within psychoanalysis, illustrating his writing with the work of Bion, Milner, and Winncott.
Michael Eigen has often advocated and encouraged a return to the spiritual in psychoannalysis-what Freud called the oceanic feeling.
Indeed, the greatest split in the psychodynamic movement, between Freud and Jung, partly hinged on the way in which mystical experience was to be understood.
Yet some psychoanalysts tend to be mystical or make use of the mystical experience as an intuitive model for psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis is allied with science and, if anything, is capable of deconstructing mystical experience.
Most psychoanalysts tend to be anti-mystical or, at least, non-mystical.
In the text he explores how this immersion restores and enriches, and drains.
He expands on his call to celebrate and explore the meaning of mystical experience within psychoanalysis and considers how both patient and analyst to be immersed in each other.
Advocating a call to the return to the spiritual in psychoanalysis, Michael Eigen illustrates his writing with the work of Bion, Milner and Winnicott
