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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779495703321

Autore

Eigen Michael

Titolo

Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis / / by Michael Eigen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2018]

©2012

ISBN

0-429-91537-3

0-429-47637-X

1-280-99542-4

9786613767035

1-78241-002-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (154 p.)

Disciplina

150.1952

296

Soggetti

Cabala - Psychological aspects

Psychoanalysis

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; CHAPTER TWO; APPENDIX 1 Ein Sof and the Sephirot (Tree of Life); APPENDIX 2 Four worlds; APPENDIX 3 Circle and rays; APPENDIX 4 O-grams; APPENDIX 5 Bion's Grid; APPENDIX 6 Bion quotes; APPENDIX 7 Rabbi Nachman's paths; APPENDIX 8 Selected readings; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Wilfred Bion once said, "I use the Kabbalah as a framework for psychoanalysis." Both are preoccupied with catastrophe and faith, infinity and intensity of experience, shatter and growth of being that supports dimensions which sensitivity opens. Both are preoccupied with ontological implications of the Unknown and the importance of emotional life. This work is a psychospiritual adventure touching the places Kabbalah and psychoanalysis give something to each other. Michael Eigen uses aspects of Bion, Winnicott, Akivah, Luria and Nachman (and many more) as colours on a palette to open realities for growth of experience. Bion called faith "the psychoanalytic attitude" and



Eigen here explores creative, paradoxical, multidimensional aspects of faith. Eigen previously wrote of psychoanalysis as a form of prayer in The Psychoanalytic Mystic. In Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis he writes of creative faith. Sessions as crucibles in which diverse currents of personality mix in new ways, alchemy or soul chemistry perhaps, or simply homage to our embryonic nature which responds to the breath of feeling moment to moment.