For those interested, I am offering these 10 talks I gave on Damaged Bonds by Michael Eigen, Ph.D. There is a commentary for each chapter of the book. The seminar was given February through April 2018.
Damaged Bonds, Chapter 1 commentary:
Damaged Bonds, Chapter 2 commentary, Wounded Nourishment:
Damaged Bonds– Chapter 3 commentary, Damaged Dream-work:
Damaged Bonds– Chapter 4 commentary, The Undreamable Object:
Damaged Bonds– Chapter 5 commentary, Cameras:
Damaged Bonds– Chapter 6 commentary, The World Gets Bigger:
Damaged Bonds– Chapter 7 commentary, Filing Insides:
Damaged Bonds– Chapter 8 commentary, The Need to Kill Oneself:
Damaged Bonds–Chapter 9 commentary, Tinkering:
Damaged Bonds– Chapter 10 commentary, Shivers:
Audio Commentaries on Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis
Below are two of my introductory talks on Michael Eigen’s book Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis. Part of an 8 week seminar series I gave in the Fall of 2019 in Portland, Oregon.
Audio Commentaries on Contact With The Depths
Below is a sampling from my introductory talk and commentary on Michael Eigen’s book Contact With the Depths, part of a 10 week seminar series I gave in 2019.
Errata: Wilfred Bion died in 1979, not 1977 as stated in the audio. Please note I am paraphrasing both Bion and Eigen with regard to their criteria for “good psychoanalytic writing.”
This second commentary touches concerns in Chapter One, including distinction-union-structure–process, along with aspects of DW Winnicott and his notion of background support in relation to the case of “Abe”: