3 papers in the library · publishing 2018
Routledge eBooks May 30, 2018 Michael Eigen
IN THIS CHAPTER, we will explore selected aspects of two cases in some detail. The first is Freud&s;s Schreber case, 1 the other is drawn from my clinical practice, Schreber is one of Freud&s;s great case portrayals, one of the writings in which Freud transforms case study into a new genre. It not only explores a clinical entity, but it also seems to illuminate and stretch the human experience....
May 20, 2018 Michael Eigen
Images have often been looked at as second-class citizens in Western thought. For Plato, they were useful to help climb the ladder towards Pure Idea. Sensation, image, feeling were potential facilitators on the way to Pure Form. For Aristotle, the goal was to reach and exercise the pinnacle of cognition, active reason, a divine attribute. In philosophical writings, one could hear sensation and...
Routledge eBooks March 21, 2018 Michael Eigen
A lot of therapy is about the slow recovery of faith, at least more of it, a more informed faith, wiser, fuller, ready for anything. Although S. Freud ostensibly developed a theory and clinical approach to neurosis, the author points out in The Psychotic Core that his concepts are heavily steeped in a phenomenology of psychosis. Freud spoke of flooding as a primal trauma. Mystics also attest to...