COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTORY NOTE -- FOREWORD Michael Eigen: psychoanalyst, philosopher, mystic -- Editors' introduction -- PART I REFLECTIONS -- CHAPTER ONE Bion, Eigen, and the dreaming of Kali -- CHAPTER TWO Distinction-union: a Buddhist reflection on the great embrace -- CHAPTER THREE The work of Michael Eigen: into the heart of psychoanalysis -- CHAPTER FOUR Eigentime: time in the writing of Michael Eigen -- CHAPTER FIVE Tropisms of creative faith and destructiveness in the works of Michael Eigen and Martin Heidegger -- PART II REFRACTIONS -- CHAPTER SIX Psychic aliveness: on "being murdered into life" -- CHAPTER SEVEN Eigen's transformational esthetic: wounded nourishment, primary process work, and the purple period -- CHAPTER EIGHT Becoming a welcoming object: personal notes on Michael Eigen's impact -- CHAPTER NINE Being with-in, "wherever you find yourself with a patient" -- CHAPTER TEN Michael Eigen: rich impacts -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Supervision with Michael Eigen: notes on a love affair -- CHAPTER TWELVE Thoughts from Michael Eigen in my work with young Aboriginal mothers -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Studying Bion's work in Mike Eigen's ongoing weekly seminar -- PART III REVERIES -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Michael Eigen's Ecstasy as/and poetry -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN Two poems -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN Tangled up in Mike -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN On fragmentation, expansion, pieces of more -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Sensing the mustard seed: defense, awakening, and fragmentation -- APPENDIX Michael Eigen: bibliography of main works -- INDEX.