Abstract
Michael Eigen is a romantic writer-poet and analyst whose profound interest in religion and God deters readers as much as it attracts them. The first part of this paper describes basic ideas in Eigen's writings such as mysticism and duality. How to read Eigen and why is the primary focus of the second part. By using "the area of faith in Winnicott, Lacan and Bion" (1981/1993), the paper shows how Eigen attempts to engage his readers in a totally new type of interaction with his texts, one that poses great demands and aims at making contact with something outside preexisting knowledge and psychoanalytic theory..
| Original language | American English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 9-27 |
| Journal | Quadrant |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| State | Published - 2007 |