Book description
This book contains an eighteen hour seminar - given over a three day
period - presented by Michael Eigen in Seoul, Korea, in 2007. The
seminar traces transformations of madness and faith in psychoanalysis -
particularly Freud, Klein, Bion and Winnicott - emphasizing basic
rhythms of experience steeped in clinical details, social issues and
personal concerns, and takes up problems of madness and faith besetting
the world today. It is filled with clinical portrayals and discussions
of personal and social issues. Eigen describes ways we live through
challenging experiences in therapy relevant for how life is lived.
Discussions go back and forth between clinical details and cultural
dilemmas, touching the taste of life, how one feels to oneself. This
work is at once personal, learned, and down-to-earth. One gets the
feeling that a lifetime of dedicated work is being condensed and
transmitted, mind to mind, person to person, soul to soul. The reader
will feel he or she is a member of an ongoing seminar alive today, this
moment, carrying the work further.
