Notes on the Aniconic: The Foundations of Psychology in Ontology

'Eric Rhode seeks to explore a domain that has long been missing in psychoanalytic psychology, the ineffable domain of ontology or existence. He describes a multi-layered, numinous domain that engulfs the most ordinary reaches of our lives but has remained barely known to us. His ideas are fascinating. His writings about transference and about the contact barrier make sense. He gets to the heart of the matter by counterpointing, as the mainstay to existence, the represented object with the unrepresentabl "O".'- James Grotstein. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine and Training. Supervising Analyst at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute/ Society and Psychoanalytic Center of California.