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Reinventing Psychoanalysis for the Great Unknown: The Never-Ending Challenge

Author(s) : Ofra Eshel

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Ofra Eshel’s Reinventing Psychoanalysis for the Great Unknown: The Never-Ending Challenge is a magnificent tribute to her work in which she reinvents psychoanalysis in a form that is suited to treating severe traumatic states and other forms of psychic difficulty previously unreachable. She delves deeply into her experience with the patient to accompany him or her through the depths of darkness in which the patient has lived alone and consequently without the possibility of continuing the journey into becoming oneself. This is an invaluable book that marks the frontier of contemporary psychoanalysis. Thomas Ogden, author of What Alive Means and Coming to Life in the Consulting Room

In this remarkable new volume, Ofra Eshel deepens and expands her groundbreaking original ideas on analytic oneness, exploring its vital role in psychoanalytic work at the deepest levels of the mind. With illuminating commentaries by distinguished psychoanalytic thinkers, the book ventures courageously into the unknown frontiers of analytic experience—where challenge, mystery, and transformation intertwine. Eshel’s notion of “quantum interconnectedness” opens a visionary path, suggesting that psychoanalysis, like quantum physics, can transcend the boundaries of conventional science. Her striking clinical illustrations exemplify her rare capacity to think, feel, and write from within the very heart of psychoanalysis. João Carlos Braga MD, PhD, Training and Supervising Analyst, the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of São Paulo, and Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of Curitiba, Brazil