Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis

Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis

by Michael Eigen
Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis

Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis

by Michael Eigen

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Overview

Wilfred Bion once said, "I use the Kabbalah as a framework for psychoanalysis." Both are preoccupied with catastrophe and faith, infinity and intensity of experience, shatter and growth of being that supports dimensions which sensitivity opens. Both are preoccupied with ontological implications of the Unknown and the importance of emotional life. This work is a psychospiritual adventure touching the places Kabbalah and psychoanalysis give something to each other. Michael Eigen uses aspects of Bion, Winnicott, Akivah, Luria and Nachman (and many more) as colours on a palette to open realities for growth of experience. Bion called faith "the psychoanalytic attitude" and Eigen here explores creative, paradoxical, multidimensional aspects of faith. Eigen previously wrote of psychoanalysis as a form of prayer in The Psychoanalytic Mystic. In Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis he writes of creative faith. Sessions as crucibles in which diverse currents of personality mix in new ways, alchemy or soul chemistry perhaps, or simply homage to our embryonic nature which responds to the breath of feeling moment to moment.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780490809
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/31/2012
Pages: 154
Sales rank: 1,064,933
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Michael Eigen is a psychologist and psychoanalyst. He is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at New York University, and a Senior Member of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of a number of books, including Toxic Nourishment, The Psychoanalytic Mystic, Feeling Matters and Flames from the Unconscious.

Table of Contents

Preface and Introduction , Chapter One , Chapter Two , Ein Sof and the Sephirot (Tree of Life) , Four worlds , Circle and rays , O-grams , Bion’s Grid , Bion quotes , Rabbi Nachman’s paths , Selected readings
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