Psychoanalysis, Intersubjective Writing, and a Post-Materialist Model of Mind: I Woke up Dead. Dan Gilhooley & Frank Toich. New York:  Routledge, 2020.  332 pages.

An exploration of uncanny occurrences, of premonition dreams, of journeys through time, of ordinary spatial referents lost and replaced by actions at a distance and synchronicities, of a “perceptual” world of quantum physics—all in the service of letting a complete psychoanalytic experience unfold—this book challenges credulity as well as any hope of adhering to the ordinary logic of consciously well-ordered thinking. In short, in this book the logic of the unconscious prevails (; Saad, 2020). Dan Gilhooley, a psychoanalyst, artist, thinker and writer, and Frank Toich, Gilhooley's analysand and a writer, come to know one another through a process of mutual self-discovery suggested in the title. The context is Frank Toich's analysis. Both Dan and Frank have at different times in their lives suffered the death of a very significant loved one: Dan, of his father by suicide, and Frank, of his son by cancer. Dan had argued for many years that psychoanalysis had its origins in the animal magnetism and thought-transference theories and practices that preceded it. Frank Toich came to Dan for psychoanalysis.

At one significant point in their work together, they each have the “same” dream: that “I woke up dead.” With this, their lives have become intertwined, and they begin in depth an adventurous exploration of their shared worlds, leading to theoretical, clinical, and personal transformations; leading, that is, to significant psychic change for them, in the contexts of their own histories and in the context of their relationship in a psychoanalytic process that included intersubjective writing. I believe the point of this book is to describe fully and without prejudice the unfolding of a psychoanalytic experience and to give an account of it that carries the force of the analysis itself and allows the reader to experience its transformative power. The reader has to be prepared to acknowledge the power and the logic of the unconscious in order to “submit” to the experience th