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Book SynopsisWriting in collaboration, three psychoanalytic clinicians develop a fresh vision of the essential role of music in psychical life. Through an interdisciplinary exploration,
Here I’m Alive shows how music is fundamental to becoming human, establishing our embodied sense of membership and participation in a shared world through the fabric of culture.
Trade ReviewShowing us that music is at the heart of human development, of sociability, of love and desire—at the heart of most of what matters to us—this book shows us what many of us have always somehow thought but have never been able to know with such clarity and vision. Not simply one of the most fascinating books written about psychoanalysis,
Here I’m Alive is, more importantly, about just how musical our lives are and can be. It is a unique and remarkable book. -- Adam Phillips, author of
The Cure for PsychoanalysisThe phrase 'music lover' always rankled me, and this wild, beautiful, polyphonic book shows why: music is not just loved; music
is love, is everywhere, is everything. Far from being a book just about music and psychoanalysis,
Here I’m Alive is an experiment in eros. Its venerable concepts—the unconscious, the drives, rhythm, harmony—become a loom that weaves a world-sized tapestry. -- Seth Brodsky, University of Chicago, author of
From 1989, or European Music & the Modernist UnconsciousHere I’m Alive is quietly revolutionary in the way it proposes that we as psychoanalysts are in the business of reuniting our patients with the musical dimension of life through which they become more fully human, more fully themselves. These essays illustrate the role of music in the very fabric of life. -- Thomas Ogden, author of
Coming to Life in the Consulting Room: Toward a New Analytic SensibilityTable of ContentsPreface: Liner Notes
Side A1. The Body’s Way of Dreaming
2. The Rhythm of the Heat
3. Mind Waves
4. Learning to Live Together
5. The Living Frame
Side B6. Re-membering, Re-beating, and Worlding-Through
7. Strange Loop
8. This Is How We Do It
9. The Art Teacher
10. Old Foundations in Psychoanalysis
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
