Rage (Disseminations, Psychoanalysis in Contexts)

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Summary: In Touch with Rage
Review: If you are searching for insight into the darkness of rage, this book is a light source. It comes at a time when it is most needed. The headlines are filled with talk of terror, evil and war. There is outrage of all kinds and at many things. No matter what we think of any of this talk, it is easy to feel and voice rage about some aspect of what is happening in our world -- even if it is just about the talk itself.

In story after story Mike Eigen lucidly describes how it shows up in lives and how great a struggle it is to keep rage from destroying them. This work neither fuels rage nor explains it away. Nor does it drift into grieving or despair or hope. Rage is the author’s homing signal and he stays on track throughout the work. He leaves the reader with no sense that rage is something that can be transcended or ignored. He brings rage close to you, so you, as he has, can come away with a sense that it is possible to be near rage and to still learn and grow without being consumed in the process.

The final chapter was written after 9-11, an event that gives rage a significance that is impossible to ignore. The aftershocks from this event still touch the lives of many people around the world and they have not stopped. These last words, written after this world-changing tragedy, evoke tears for all of us. Tears can be necessary and appropriate but they are no substitute for listening to what Mike Eigen can share from his first hand experience.