Toxic Nourishment and Damaged Bonds in the Work of Michael Eigen
examines Eigen’s rich phenomenological work on the Obstructive Object.
The contributors to this collection explore the core theme with reference to key Eigen works, including
The Psychotic Core
,
Psychic Deadness
Toxic Nourishment
, and
Damaged Bonds
. This volume seeks to elaborate on the
Obstructive Object
through essays and poems that include poignant clinical examples, the impact of exceptionally traumatized patients on their analysts, literature comparisons, and the more "mystical aspect" of Eigen’s influence on working with the obstructive object. Essays draw from Virginia Woolf, Elena Ferrante, Wilfred Bion, D.W. Winnicott, Andrè Greene, Christopher Bollas, and Adam Phillips, among many others, in exploring injury-rage, unwanted patients, psychoanalytic faith, toxic nourishment, and damaged bonds.
will greatly interest psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and those interested in psychoanalytic and spiritual psychology.