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

<p><i>Primary Process Impacts and Dreaming the Undreamable Object in the Work of Michael Eigen </i>examines Eigen’s rich phenomenological work on becoming a welcoming object.</p><p>The contributors to this collection explore the core theme with reference to key Eigen works including <i>Feeling Matters</i> and <i>Contact with the Depths</i>. 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 <i>Toxic Nourishment and Damaged Bonds in the Work of Michael Eigen</i> 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. <i>Primary Process Impacts and Dreaming the Undreamable Object in the Work of Michael Eigen </i>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.</p><p>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.</p>