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Book Review: Ecstasy, by Michael Eigen, Wesleyan University Press, 2001, 104 pp.

Book Review: Ecstasy, by Michael Eigen, Wesleyan University Press, 2001, 104 pp. The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 62, No. 4, December 2002 ( 2002) Book Review Edited by Jeannine Zoppi, Ph.D. Ecstasy, by Michael Eigen, Wesleyan University Press, 2001, 104 pp. In the preface to Ecstasy,Michael Eigen expresses the hope that the book will be “a kind of dance, perhaps a kind of psychoanalytic poetry.” He succeeds in this endeavour and also in having offered us a book of great clinical value that can help guide us in our encounters with patients who have lost touch with their own vitality or, alternatively, are hopelessly gripped by the gratifications of ecstatic pain. Eigen invites us into the very heart of the ecstatic moment, which he defines in terms of an intensity of experience that at once brings us closer to the core of our being and to the edge of the Absolute. He is inclusive in his vision of ecstasy, while affirming our desire to be exclusive: to have the pleasure of it without the pain. This is a desire that creates its opposite through a disjunctive wishful splitting of reality. In the yearning toward ecstasy, we inevitably encounter the whole of it, rather than the wished for demi-self, demi-reality. As http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

Book Review: Ecstasy, by Michael Eigen, Wesleyan University Press, 2001, 104 pp.

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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 62 (4) – Oct 18, 2004
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2002 by Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
Subject
Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
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1573-6741
DOI
10.1023/A:1021153118604
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 62, No. 4, December 2002 ( 2002) Book Review Edited by Jeannine Zoppi, Ph.D. Ecstasy, by Michael Eigen, Wesleyan University Press, 2001, 104 pp. In the preface to Ecstasy,Michael Eigen expresses the hope that the book will be “a kind of dance, perhaps a kind of psychoanalytic poetry.” He succeeds in this endeavour and also in having offered us a book of great clinical value that can help guide us in our encounters with patients who have lost touch with their own vitality or, alternatively, are hopelessly gripped by the gratifications of ecstatic pain. Eigen invites us into the very heart of the ecstatic moment, which he defines in terms of an intensity of experience that at once brings us closer to the core of our being and to the edge of the Absolute. He is inclusive in his vision of ecstasy, while affirming our desire to be exclusive: to have the pleasure of it without the pain. This is a desire that creates its opposite through a disjunctive wishful splitting of reality. In the yearning toward ecstasy, we inevitably encounter the whole of it, rather than the wished for demi-self, demi-reality. As

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