Dialogues with Michael Eigen spans 20 years of diverse interviews and interactions with the acclaimed psychologist Michael Eigen, including interlocutors from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Sweden, Israel, and the United States, published together for the first time. This book explores the importance of soul reveries, psychoanalytic prayers, and cultivation of psychoanalytic faith in Eigen’s work. The dialogues lay out Eigen’s privileging of emotions as messengers in need of recognition, enabling a deep vitalising contact of being with oneself and others.
Key Features
- Explores the significance of soul reveries and psychoanalytic prayers.
- Highlights the role of emotions as messengers in psychoanalysis.
- Offers insights into the mind–body–soul connections.
- Aids in the cultivation of a creative relationship with oneself.
Additional Information
Eigen reminds us that struggling with one’s personality remains a life-long task, exposing us to various existential sufferings, agonies, traumas, and losses in need of soul confession, if not analytic prayer. The book seeks to help readers find, touch, and work with emotional realities a little better and support a growing intimate, creative relation to ourselves. The rich explorations of the interviews and interactions with Eigen help contribute to further appreciation of our experiential life and the worlds it opens. Building on his work on mind–body–soul connections, Dialogues with Michael Eigen is an essential book for anyone interested in the spiritual side of psychoanalysis.
