Commentaries on the Work of Michael Eigen

This book is an accessible and engaging introduction to this ground-breaking psychoanalytic sage. Through exploration of Eigen's two key texts, The Psychotic Core and Emotional Storm, the author addresses universal human concerns of madness and the difficulties of our emotional life.

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Robin Bagai, Psy.D. is a clinical psychologist in Portland, Oregon, who has been practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapy for over thirty-five years. His work has been published in two edited collections: The Spiritual Psyche in Psychotherapy: Mysticism, Intersubjectivity, and Psychoanalysis; and Healing, Rebirth, and The Work of Michael Eigen (both Routledge). Dr. Bagai has been leading in-person and international seminars on over a dozen of Michael Eigen's books since 2014.

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Commentaries on the Work of Michael Eigen is an accessible and engaging introduction to this ground-breaking psychoanalytic sage. Through exploration of Eigen's two key texts, The Psychotic Core and Emotional Storm, the author addresses universal human concerns of madness and the difficulties of our emotional life.

In conversational style, the book mirrors Eigen's chapter-by-chapter approach, focusing on and amplifying important aspects of each work. Bagai follows threads of several key themes from psychoanalysis, philosophy, literature, religious thought, and the humanities, and chapters include discussion of relevant theory from Freud, Jung, Melanie Klein, Winnicott, Bion, Buber, Levinas, among others. Rather than a comprehensive or systematic exegesis of Eigen's work, Bagai's commentary expands nodal aspects, illuminating and probing seminal themes and ideas. Through clinical case examples, the author explores intertwining of mind and body, self and the other using an array of carefully selected quotes from Eigen's kaleidoscopic vision. Commentaries on the Work of Michael Eigen will be essential reading for psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, as well as anyone seeking a greater understanding of Eigen's work.

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Foreword by Michael Eigen

Acknowledgments

Credits

Introduction Part One: Commentaries on The Psychotic Core Commentary #1: *The Core of Psychosis

• Commentary #2: *Hallucination, Idealization and Wish-Fulfillment
• Commentary #3: *Hallucination, Megalomania, and Emotional Pain
• Commentary #4: *Phenomenology, Evasion, and the Primacy of Experience
• Commentary #5: *Mindlessness
• Commentary #6: *Boundaries
• Commentary #7: *Hate, Fear, and Aggression
• Commentary #8: *Hate, Self-Hatred, and the Death Drive
• Commentary #9: *Epistemology and Reversal
• Commentary #10: *Schreber and Rena
• Commentary #11: *The Psychotic Self
• Commentary #12: *Unintegration, Madness, Suicide, and Epilogue
• References, Part One Part Two: Commentaries on Emotional Storm Commentary #1: *Inside the Storm
• Commentary #2: *Emotional Storms
• Commentary #3: *More Emotional Storms
• Commentary #4: *Smile and Scream
• Commentary #5: No Amount of Suffering

Commentary #6: *Somatic Storms

• Commentary #7: *Dream Images
• Commentary #8: *Killers within Life and Psyche
• Commentary #9: *Killers in Dreams
• Commentary #10: *Training Wheels
• Commentary #11: *The Binding
• Commentary #12: *Guilt, Suffering, and Transformation
• Commentary #13: *Guilt, Care, and Afterword
• References, Part Two