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The Birth of Experience (Paperback)
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The Birth of Experience (Paperback)
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The birth of experience goes on all life long. Giving birth to
oneself involves many processes. The first chapter of this book
expands on Eigen's final talk on 'Psychoanalysis and Kabbalah' for
the New York University Postdoctoral Contemplative Studies Project,
and focuses in particular on an intertwining of beauty and
destruction. Beauty is the heart of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life,
intricately linked both to other capacities and to catastrophic
devastation. Interestingly, Bion also links faith and catastrophe,
and writes of psychoanalytic 'beauty', thereby creating a rich
dance of psychoanalysis with Kabbalah. Winnicott adds his own
special touch, associating the fate of a vital spark with trauma as
the personality begins to form, and with the work of spontaneous
recovery that is a profound part both of living and of therapy
sessions. The second part of the book is new and focuses on birth
processes at different ages and situations, exploring in detail how
psychoanalysis interweaves with themes from life, clinical work,
and Kabbalah. Failed birth processes are part of living but so is
the need to 'midwife' existence.Eigen suggests that there may be
some kind of organ that permeates, scans, and tastes shifting
centers of experience, taking note of their fate and partnering
their development - a kind of inner tuning sense in search of
cultivation, spanning what we call conscious and unconscious life,
mind and body, and testing the weather for favorable birth
conditions. Often we do not know exactly what is happening or how,
but sense something germinating. Domains open that are not
confineable or restricted by the tools at hand - which is perhaps
one reason why analysts are called toolmakers, as experience and
the tools used to understand it become part of further birth
processes. In this way, Eigen shows how the intimate fusion of
psychological and spiritual currents generate new tastes of living.
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