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In this latest book Michael Eigen continues his peregrinations on the fringes of psychological experience. With a penchant for exploring extreme states of mind, from The Psychotic Core to Psychic Deadness, Eigen has consistently brought himself into contact with the far reaches of the human psyche. Here he focuses attention on an important, often shunned topic of analytic discourse, mysticism. Not primarily an analysis of phenomena described in mystical and religious literature, nor a psychology of mystical states, the author instead explicates the inherent mysticism informing some of the most significant of recent psychoanalytic theories. Although the works of early psychoanalytic pioneers are touched on, the major theorists drawn upon for the present volume, in order of importance, are: Bion, Lacan, Milner, and Winnicott. Indeed, chapters three and four could be read as primers on Bion's attempts to articulate the mystery of existence encapsulated in his quasi-algebraic nomenclature of “O”. A similar service is performed for Lacan's writings on “jouissance” in chapters eight and nine. What is particularly striking in the latter instance is the reclamation of the mystical that occurs in the face of Lacan's general aversion to such concerns: Eigen is compelling in his portrayal of the “numinous” or spiritual dimension accessed by Lacan's thought. The overall impact of Eigen's excursions into his various sources is an impressionistic one: attempting to comprehend the finer points of the theories presented by intensifying focus on specific arguments paradoxically results in a loss of resolution, whereas standing