TY - JOUR A1 - Eigen, Michael T1 - Maternal Abandonment Threats, Mind-Body Relations and Suicidal Wishes JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 09 (1981), pp. 561-582. Y1 - 1981 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eigen, Michael T1 - >I don't know<: Resistance or groping for words? The construction of analytic subjectivity JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 01 (1991), pp. 106-119. N2 - This article presents the author's reactions to a client who saw him for one visit, came 20 minutes late, demanded ideal >parenting,< called during the following two weeks, and one day left flowers in his waiting room. The focus is on the failed meeting, the meeting that did not take place, loss, and longing. The aim is to go beyond diagnostic categories to the place where therapy fails, the edge of what is therapeutically possible. Dwelling with therapeutic incapacity in a full and detailed way – letting >it< speak – may help to stimulate evolution of capacities needed to work with individuals who now slip away from what therapy can do. Y1 - 1991 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eigen, Michael T1 - A bug-free universe. JF - Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (1997), pp. 019-041. Y1 - 1997 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eigen, Michael T1 - The paradox of innocence dissociative >adhesive< states in perpetrators of incest JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 14 (2004), pp. 119-130. N2 - A basic rhythm of breakdown–recovery, with many offshoots and permutations, characterizes aspects of psychic life. This rhythm threads its way through Elkin's, Winnicott's, and Bion's work and plays an important role in the unconscious processing of affects. If this rhythm is damaged or jammed, affect processing goes awry. Dream work helps initiate affect processing, a kind of emotional digestion. If the dream work's rhythm of breakdown–recovery is damaged, one lives in a state of chronic emotional indigestion or starvation. Clinical work, including a child's dream of the World Trade Center disaster, illustrates the discussion. Y1 - 2004 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eigen, Michael T1 - To Hug or Not to Hug: What If Rebecca Didn't Really Mean What She Said-: Commentary on Paper by Stuart A. Pizer JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 169-183. N2 - The author presents an intense exploration of damage, disappearance, masochism, surrender, control, and faith in a single case. The patient experiences her damaged and disappearing self beyond anything anyone can relate to. She connects to a paper by Emmanuel Ghent that seems to address those more intact than she, yet feels tantalizingly close to his concerns. Ghent's paper refers to her therapist, and through it she peeps into her therapist's soul and the hell of wondering if damage she knows can be shared. Y1 - 2005 ER -