Here I'm Alive

Showing 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 <i>The Cure for Psychoanalysis</i> The 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 <i>From 1989, or European Music & the Modernist Unconscious</i> Here 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 <i>Coming to Life in the Consulting Room: Toward a New Analytic Sensibility</i>