ABSTRACT
Michael Eigen states, the problem of faith and destructiveness is basic to the human condition. One of psychoanalysis's most important contributions to understanding the human condition involved the various ways it explores relationships between idealization and violence. Klein adds variations to this theme and also links idealization to deadness. Like Martin Heidegger, Eigen's writings combine the most radical genuineness and paradox, a movement from "either–or" to often subtle shades of "both–and". The subject who is attentive to evolutions of O is decentered from himself or the other. Eigen further amplifies Bion by describing the growth in O where there is a movement from projective to introjective states. Eigen amplifies Bion: Faith supports experiencing and exploration of experience. Faith is deeper than belief. Belief often functions as premature organization, closure of faith. Love transforms gratitude into loyalty to our selves and unconditional faith in the other.
