[EN] 6.3 Dr. Michael Eigen — Impact and Shock: When Undigested Trauma Enters the Therapeutic Field скачать в хорошем качестве

[EN] 6.3 Dr. Michael Eigen — Impact and Shock: When Undigested Trauma Enters the Therapeutic Field

In this video, we explore impact and shock through the lens of Dr. Michael Eigen, drawing on biblical narrative, Bionian thought, and contemporary psychoanalysis. Beginning with the moment in Genesis when Rebekah first sees Isaac and falls from her camel, we reflect on this instant as a moment of psychic impact — an encounter with something overwhelming, raw, and unprocessed. Was she struck by love? Spiritual realization? Or — as this teaching suggests — was she hit by undigested trauma carried forward from the near-sacrifice of Isaac? From here, we unfold the meaning of impact: • Impact as shock prior to thought • Undigested trauma passing from one psyche into another • The therapist’s consent to receive what could not be borne • Ferenczi’s “confusion of tongues” — when events precede the capacity to think • Winnicott’s early environmental failure — before love and hate exist • Psychic fragments that never entered mental life • The analyst as a dreaming organ for what was never recognized Dr. Michael Eigen writes: “Impact is the primary raw datum… the most intimate fact of a meeting.” and “We strive to allow the impact to nest in us as we retreat to dream work, to poetic work.” When the therapist allows the impact to enter, stay, and be dreamt, frozen life begins to move again. What could not be known begins to exist. This video deepens the themes of: • dreaming • reverie • alpha function • impact • trauma recognition • psychic aliveness and is part of the full playlist on Bion and contemporary depth psychotherapy: 👉    • [EN] Bion & Not Knowing in Psychotherapy –...   🌐 My Website — Experiential Workshops I specialize in experiential workshops designed to help therapists internalize and embody Bion’s thought on a somatic and emotional level, not only intellectually. These processes support deeper presence, reverie, and transformational contact: https://www.yakirkrichman.com/ 📚 Recommended Reading — Dr. Michael Eigen For profound reflection on psychic aliveness, trauma, and emotional shock: Eigen, M. (2004). Psychic Deadness. Routledge. Recommended chapters: • Chapter 11 — From Attraction to Meditation • Chapter 12 — Primary Process and Shock These chapters illuminate the subtle, living field of therapy where impact precedes meaning. This series is created for clinicians, psychoanalysts, trauma practitioners, students of depth psychology, and all who care about truthful human contact and emotional life. 🔖 Hashtags #MichaelEigen #ImpactAndShock #DepthPsychology #TraumaHealing #Psychoanalysis #TherapeuticPresence #Bion #Reverie #ClinicalImpact #ContemporaryPsychoanalysis