In Who Is the Dreamer Who Dreams the Dream? A Study of Psychic
Presences, James Grotstein integrates some of his most important
work of recent years in addressing fundamental questions of human
psychology and spirituality. He explores two quintessential and
interrelated psychoanalytic problems: the nature of the unconscious
mind and the meaning and inner structure of human subjectivity. To
this end, he teases apart the complex, tangled threads that
constitute self-experience, delineating psychic presences and
mystifying dualities, subjects with varying perspectives and
functions, and objects with different, often phantasmagoric
properties.
Whether he is expounding on the Unconscious as a range of
dimensions understandable in terms of nonlinear concepts of chaos,
complexity, and emergence theory; modifying the psychoanalytic
concept of psychic determinism by joining it to the concept of
autochthony; comparing Melanie Klein's notion of the archaic
Oedipus complex with the ancient Greek myth of the labyrinth and
the Minotaur; or examining the relationship between the stories of
Oedipus and Christ, Grotstein emerges as an analyst whose clinical
sensibility has been profoundly deepened by his scholarly use of
mythology, classical thought, and contemporary philosophy. The
result is both an important synthesis of major currents of
contemporary psychoanalytic thought and a moving exploration of the
nature of human suffering and spirituality.
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