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The Electrified Tightrope (Paperback, Revised)
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The Electrified Tightrope (Paperback, Revised)
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A collection of exceptional papers by Michael Eigen, 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. This volume contains a thought-provoking introduction
from Adam Phillips and includes introductory notes for the chapters
and a detailed Afterword by Michael Eigen."Eigen is one of the
dozen or so most interesting psychoanalysts writing today. "The
Electrified Tightrope" presents him in his familiar function as
scholar-healer; his speciality: the construction and reconstruction
of the breathing, seeing, moving, electric, and, yes, electrifying
self. For the mental health practitioner, what Eigen presents are a
hundred points of entry. What may seem in our work dim, dismal,
even worrisomely "disruptive moments" are show by him to be
"necessary steps" in the "profound process by ego repair or
formation." Writing from a base that includes institutional and
clinical care as well as the private practice, he has much to say
to workers everywhere: And how he writes Don't miss his Afterword
or Adam Phillips' elegantly attuned introduction." -- Harold N.
Boris"Michael Eigen's writings on psychoanalysis represent a unique
clinical and theoretical contribution. Of the many psychoanalysts
writing today, Eigen is one of the few who have captured in writing
the emotional intensity of the analyst's encounter with himself as
well as his patients. Not content to coast on the surface provided
by a professional language, Eigen pushes psychoanalytic theory into
the vortex of lived experience of anxiety and pain, but also hope.
Even as he is enveloping his radical devotion to phenomenological
reality in the Winnicottian tradition, Eigen refuses to throw out
Freudian theory as he writes, "We do not know what to do with this
multiplicity, but we are not free to evade it." Even when he is the
theoretical virtuoso, he offers the reader a sense of one mind
working to fathom another mind. And even as he conveys the struggle
of analyst and patient to overcome the deadness of not feeling, he
offers no facile rhetoric of authenticity, no sense of having the
answer. It is hard to imagine any clinician or scholar who will not
be moved by Eigen's writing to feel and understand the
psychoanalytic project afresh." -- Jessica Benjamin( Previously
published 1993 by Jason Aronson Inc)"
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