Primary Process Impacts and Dreaming the Undreamable Object in the Work of Michael Eigen Becoming the Welcoming Object

Primary Process Impacts and Dreaming the Undreamable Object in the Work of Michael Eigen examines Eigen?s rich phenomenological work on becoming a welcoming object.

The contributors to this collection explore the core theme with reference to key Eigen works including Feeling Matters and Contact with the Depths. As a primary process psychoanalyst, Eigen?s writing reflects a unique rhythm of faith that is able to "revivify" union-distinction body-affect-thinking potentialities within a creative psychoanalytic dyad. In this book, alongside its companion volume, Toxic Nourishment and Damaged Bonds in the Work of Michael Eigen, contemporary Eigen readers and writers articulate the various welcoming processes and attitudes needed to cultivate a "Hearing Heart," a central ingredient in reaching and touching those parts of self-deemed unwanted, unwelcomed, and even traumatized. Primary Process Impacts and Dreaming the Undreamable Object in the Work of Michael Eigen represents a wide range of psychoanalytic perspectives, and the chapters describe the genius of Eigen as well as contribute their own clinical and academic acumen.

Presenting a key aspect of Michael Eigen's transformational aesthetic, this book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and all those with an interest in psychoanalytic and spiritual psychology.

Acknowledgments

About the Editors and Contributors

Introduction

Foreword

1. Becoming a Welcoming Object: Personal Notes on Michael Eigen’s Impact

Jeffrey L. Eaton

2.The “Hearing Heart” and the Vanishing Scream of Being

Ofra Eshel

3.Welcoming Suchness

Jeffrey L. Eaton

4. The Join and Distinction-Union: A Resonant and Complex Oneness

Adam Shechter

5. Nomad to No-Mad – Welcoming the Psychotic Core: The Primary Process Psychoanalysis of Michael Eigen

Loray Daws

6. The Welcomed Object

Alitta Kullman

7. Welcoming Dreams

Willow Pearson Trimbach

8.Ah, Strawberries!

Shalini Masih

9.Welcoming the Eye/I of the Storm: A Homecoming Story

Epsita Sandhu

10.Listening in with Michael Eigen

Isolde Keilhofer

11.Faces of the Welcoming Object: Musings on Midlife, Madness, and Mysticism -Welcoming and Being Welcomed

Marian Campbell

12.Music as Dreaming: Welcoming Absence through Music

Stephen Bloch

13.Moving to Inner Lights

Ebru Salman

14.Seer, Mystic, Sage: Luminous Presence in the Work of Michael Eigen

Paul DeBlassie

Air Currents by Rachel Berghash

Loray Daws is a registered Clinical Psychologist in South Africa and British Columbia, Canada. He is currently in private practice and is a senior faculty member at the International Masterson Institute in New York, USA.

Keri S. Cohen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Board-Certified Diplomate in clinical social work. She is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Pennsylvania, USA.