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Psychoanalytic Mystic PB
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Psychoanalytic Mystic PB
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Most psychoanalysts tend to be anti-mystical or, at least, non-mystical. Psychoanalysis is allied with science and, if anything, is capable of deconstructing mystical experience. Yet some psychoanalysts tend to be mystical or make use of the mystical experience as an intuitive model for psychoanalysis. 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. Michael Eigen has often advocated and encouraged a return to the spiritual in psychoannalysis-what Freud called the oceanic feeling. 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. Like Bion, he explicitly relates psychoanalysis to faith. Both patient and analyst are immersed in each other and this immersion restores and enriches, and drains. Each has the chance to use their minds and feelings creativ
| Author: Michael Eigen |
| Publisher: Free Association Books |
| Publication Date: Jan 01, 1998 |
| Number of Pages: 222 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1853433985 |
| ISBN-13: 9781853433986 |
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