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An astonishing and gripping psychoanalytic meditation on the collective psyche and the experiences of the recent traumatic past. As always, Michael Eigen has an extraordinary ability to use language in a way that opens and deepens psychic reality. His form evokes what his theory proposes, the constant ebbing and flowing, opening and closing of our ability to stay in contact with that reality. He is a master of psychoanalytic theory who nonetheless brings us up constantly short in the face of what is shockingly raw and untheorizable in life. --Jessica Benjamin, author of The Bonds of Love, Like Subjects, Love Objects and Shadow of the Other Eigen finds in psychoanalysis--especially in the work of Winnicott--the language of commitment to his patients and to his own unique rewording of psychoanalysis. Time after time as paragraphs open with powerful assertions one is conscripted into Eigen's quotidian psychoanalytic and spiritual depth. Who else can find in the ordinary grace of lived experience so many challenging reflections? No one else thinks like this, writes like this, or puts psychoanalysis into a separate realm. Like the writings of Adam Phillips, this is literature for the ages. --Christopher Bollas, author of Shadow of the Object, Forces of Destiny, and The Freudian Moment This beautifully written book emphasizes the dilemma of how we deal with the 'Flame of Life' within us. [Eigen] emphasizes the importance of 'Primary Aloneness' both with and without the presence of the other. He urges us to reconcile with the competing oppositions within us: love/joy, madness/creativity, and so many other conflicts. Ultimately, this book constitutes an urgent and moving appeal for us to accept our inner diversities, to live with them, and to reap the benefit of their reconciliation. This contribution represents an integration of psychoanalysis (both theoretical and clinical), religion, mysticism, and philosophy. --James S. Grotstein, MD, author of A Beam of Intense Darkness and Who is the Dreamer Who Dreams the Dream? Michael Eigen's Flames from the Unconscious aligns us with his consciousness and opens up our experience of the world. We are led into the heart of a deeply caring individual: a restless, demanding, probing, sensitive, tender and inspiring therapist who knows our fears but is no longer afraid himself. --Mark Epstein, MD, author of Thoughts without a Thinker and Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart

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