Psychic Deadness

• Utgivningsdatum: 2004-12-31
• Mått: 147 x 230 x 16 mm
• Vikt: 400 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 260
• Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• ISBN: 9781855753860

• Freudiansk psykologi

1 recensioner, genomsnitt 5/5

1. 5/5 Martin 2018-12-06

   Michael Eigen is a real favourite author, an eclectic jazzpianist of souls and psyches of sorts. I've read serveral of his books but rate this one to be among his stronger ones. Eigen shows us how destructiveness, evil and violence are always lurking in all of our respective psyches and illustrates some of the forms, warps and explosions that these forces manifest within and throughout our lives. By delving into such thematics, the book (like so many of all his other works) therefore breathes of the very character, courage and suffering needed, and always at play, when meeting with one's psyche, when confronting, dancing or wrestling with that evil and when coming through the very whirlwind - as Eigen surely would say - surviving oneself. Surviving each other. Surviving life itself, with all of its inbuilt psychic deadness.
   
   This book deals with psychic death using pairs such as emptiness/fullness rage/desperation/helplessnessunion/distinction and so on. A core feature theme of what I take from this book concerns primary process and affects. No amount of secondary process work in the world can help heal a primary process gone boozing. So to get there, we have to go there. And in doing that - anything can happen. In a way, that's what it's all about.
   
   With an apmlitude of clinical vignettes as well as slices of apt contemporary social critique (primarily of American politics), Eigen illuminates and ruminates (!) on psychic deadness and it's discontents from a multiplicity of theoretical and phenomenological angles: From Freud's deathdrive, Bions explosive oblivion, through Klein and infantile rage/jealousy and into Winnicott, and the power found in a mother/friend/partner who can hold and contain agression. Even though you are angry, I will still love you. Even you you have no trust to n me, I will have in you. People surviving people. Us surviving each other. Life surviving life.
   
   Psychic deadness is a book that gives the reader a real sense of what life can be about, for those who dare to sense. weep. Call out. For those who have the courage to seek to live freely, open souls and hearts towards one another.
   
   In Psychic Deadness Eigen has done it again; with great empathy toward the human predicament he helps us find that within us which has goodness and radiance while letting us see (and smell!) abysses of our own confusion were swimming in. For that lit up candle, I owe the biggest amount of respect and appreciation to Mr Michal Eigen. His music verberates in me for times to come.
   
   Hat off