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Author Eigen, Michael.

Title The electrified tightrope / Michael Eigen ; edited by Adam Phillips
Published London : Karnac, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 289 pages)
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Psychoanalysis.
Emotions.
Medical personnel and patient.
Emotions
Professional-Patient Relations
Psychoanalytic Theory
Psychoanalytic Therapy -- methods
Psychoanalysis
psychoanalysis.
emotion.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements -- Psychoanalysis.
Medical personnel and patient
Emotions
Psychoanalysis
Genre/Form essays.
Essays
Essays.
Essais.
Form Electronic book
Author Phillips, Adam
ISBN 9781849404303
1849404305