The electrified tightrope / by Michael Eigen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eigen, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2018].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of exceptional papers by the author, selected and assembled by Adam Phillips, that represent 20 years of writing and 30 years of work. The papers examine the tension, caused by the conflict between poise and catastrophe, in the therapeutic relationship.

Contents:

COVER; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Introductory Notes; 1. Abstinence and the Schizoid Ego; 2. Psychopathy and Individuation; 3. The Recoil on Having Another Person; 4. Working with ""Unwanted"" Patients; 5. Breathing and Identity; 6. The Significance of the Face; 7. Instinctual Fantasy and Ideal Images; 8. Creativity, Instinctual Fantasy, and Ideal Images; 9. Ideal Images, Creativity, and the Freudian Drama; 10. Soft and Hard Qualities; 11. The Area of Faith in Winnicott, Lacan, and Bion; 12. Guntrip's Analysis with Winnicott; 13. Breaking the Frame: Stopping the World

14. Dual Union or Undifferentiation?15. The Structure of Freud's Theory of Creativity; 16. Demonized Aspects of the Self; 17. Between Catastrophe and Faith; 18. Omnipotence; 19. Mindlessness-Selflessness; 20. Omniscience; Afterword; Credits; Index

Notes:

First published in 1993 by Jason Aronson Inc., NJ, USA.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-429-92056-3

0-429-90633-1

0-429-48156-X

1-283-12603-6

9786613126030

1-84940-430-5

9780429481567

OCLC:

729166937