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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464848803321

Autore

Eigen Michael

Titolo

The birth of experience / / Michael Eigen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Karnac, , 2014

ISBN

0-429-90595-5

0-429-48118-7

1-78241-242-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Disciplina

150.195

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE Beauty and destruction; CHAPTER TWO On the birth of experience; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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 psych