{"id":4602,"date":"2016-07-30T17:01:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T17:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/?post_type=article&#038;p=4602"},"modified":"2016-07-30T17:01:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T17:01:35","slug":"under-the-totem-in-search-of-a-path","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/article\/under-the-totem-in-search-of-a-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the Totem: In Search of a Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By<strong> Michael Eigen <\/strong>(USA)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4603 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/eigencoverart0616Cw.jpg\" alt=\"eigencoverart0616Cw\" width=\"200\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/eigencoverart0616Cw.jpg 200w, https:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/eigencoverart0616Cw-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Totem conveys spirit, a sense of the sacred. Freud attempted to get under the totem and explore psychic forces and pressures below the surface. Jung opened further depths in exploration of the sacred. Engagement with a sense of mystery that permeates existence lives in many quarters, including art, music, religion, and depth psychologies.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Under the Totem: In Search of a Path <\/em><\/strong>(Karnac, 2016) is an extended reverie, reflection, confession, and encounter with psychic reality, a profound intertwining of multiple dimensions of existence. Psychotherapy spans all dimensions of life, often drawing on capacities we did not know we had. Anything may enter a session and help or harm at a given moment. Under the totem psyche is speaking. Can we hear and transmit it, and to what extent, with what quality?<\/p>\n<p>The method of this book is fragmentary. Different facets of experience emerge, recede, and reappear, as others enter. The emphasis is on feeling and imaginative reflection. A good deal draws on therapy sessions and ongoing dialogues with workers who have touched the author, including Bion, Winnicott, Freud, Jung, Klein, Buber, Suzuki, Milner, Wittgenstein, and Wertheimer. The writing grows from love of the psyche\u2014its difficulties and gifts, what we sense as well as the vastness beyond sensing\u2014a love affair ongoing for nearly sixty years of work and acts of shared faith.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Link: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/us.karnacbooks.com\/product\/under-the-totem-in-search-of-a-path\/38495\/\">http:\/\/us.karnacbooks.com\/product\/under-the-totem-in-search-of-a-path\/38495\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4596 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/eigenphoto0616w.jpg\" alt=\"eigenphoto0616w\" width=\"200\" height=\"132\" \/>Michael Eigen, PhD<br \/>\n<\/strong>225 Central Park West, Apt. 101A<br \/>\nNew York, NY 10024\u00a0\u00a0 USA<br \/>\n<a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;&#x69;&#108;&#116;o:&#x6d;&#x69;&#x6b;&#101;&#105;ge&#x6e;&#x40;&#x61;&#111;&#108;&#46;c&#x6f;&#x6d;\">Email Mike Eigen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Eigen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":14,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"issuem_issue":[49],"issuem_issue_categories":[],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"class_list":["post-4602","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","issuem_issue-bookshelf-special-edition-august-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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