Flames from the Unconscious: Trauma, Madness, and Faith

by Michael Eigen

Overview

To feel like an impostor is a recurrent theme among artists and to feel false as a person is a crucial theme in psychoanalysis. The sense that one is living a lie is important to many and often goes with a sense that an important flame is waning. Fused with this is fear that self-discovery is sinful. Guilt, fear and shame attaches to development and to failure to develop. Fusion of opposites is the rule in psychic life. Creative theft melds with destructive dreads. Unbearable agonies prompt easeful lies and falsity to escape pain and helplessness ... Real touches real, sometimes for evil, sometimes for good, often the two indiscernible, indistinguishable. This book affirms that there is something in us that works with all its might to tip the balance towards the good.- Michael Eigen, from the Foreword

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367106362
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/14/2019
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: Flames From the Unconscious Chapter 2: Primary Aloneness Chapter 3: Incommunicado Core and Boundless Supporting Unknown Chapter 4: Guilt in an Age of Psychopathy Chapter 5: I Killed Socrates Chapter 6: Revenge Ethics Chapter 7: Something Wrong Chapter 8: Emily and M.E. Chapter 9: Faith and Destructiveness