Psyche Singing-Weeping: Partnering Soul Hunger and our Amazing Beings

Practitioners and General Public: $40  SOLD OUT

Students: $10  SOLD OUT

Dr. Eigen will explore the themes of his two latest books, The Challenge of Being Human and Dialogues With Michael Eigen: Psyche Singing. The phrase “psyche singing” gives expression to one aspect of psyche-hunger, a dimension of universal soul hunger. The shock of ourselves is perennial. We are challenged by our own aliveness and a need to open doors as yet unknown. Developing the capacity to tolerate and work with experience is part of our evolutionary challenge. Eigen reminds us that struggling with one’s personality remains a life-long task, exposing us to existential sufferings, agonies, traumas, and losses in need of soul confession, if not analytic prayer. His work explores psychoanalytic faith, emotions as messengers in need of recognition, welcoming inner gestures for incubation, and enabling deep vitalizing contact of being with oneself and others. We are never done evolving, growing, learning, feeling, and caring. This work seeks to support us in whatever ways we can begin to meet the challenge of becoming better partners with ourselves.

Michael Eigen, PhD, is an instructor and supervisor at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis and the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; the leader of a private seminar on Bion, Winnicott, Lacan, and his own work; and a past editor of The Psychoanalytic Review. He is the author of twenty-seven books and numerous papers.

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