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The shift in contemporary psychoanalysis over the last decades has been from classical one-person psychoanalysis to the intersubjective domain and the theories of the analytic field generated between the subjectivities of patient and analyst. But my way of thinking goes further … to a more radical patient-analyst being-in-oneness…. This is a shift from getting to know the emotional reality of the patient's experience (K) to becoming atone with the emotional reality of the patient's experience (O) as the crucial point. (p. 39)
Ofra Eshel, in The Emergence of Analytic Oneness: Into the Heart of Psychoanalysis, explicates this next movement in psychoanalytic theory and technique. And what a radical and bold leap Eshel takes. She proposes a paradigm shift that builds on the work of Winnicott and Bion, highlighting “the radical undifferentiated experience of patient-and-analyst being-in-oneness at a primordial point of origin” (p. 240). The introduction briefly describes this new clinical dimension, while the seven chapters of part 1 describe the evolution of her theory and clinical approach. In part 2 she organizes her more recent work, focusing still more acutely on the theme of therapeutic regression. The final chapter of the book lays out her paradigmatic shift to a quantum psychoanalysis that she believes can co-exist with classical psychoanalysis in the same way that quantum mechanics and Newtonian mechanics co-exist.
The book gathers papers published over a more than a 30-year career, but these are not just reprints. The material has been considerably reorganized