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About this book
Each person invests many of the objects in his life with his or her own unconscious meaning, each person subsequently voyages through an environment that constantly evokes the self's psychic history. Taking Freud's model of dreamwork as a model for all unconscious thinking, Christopher Bollas argues that we dreamwork ourselves into becoming who we are, and illustrates how the analyst and the patient use such unconscious processes to develop new psychic structures that the patient can use to alter his or her self experience. Building on this foundation, he goes on to describe some very special forms of self experience, including the tragic madness of women cutting themselves, the experience of a cruising homosexual in bars and bathes and the demented ferocity of the facist state of mind. An original interpreter of classical theory and clinical issues, in Being a Character Christopher Bollas takes the reader into the very texture of the psychoanalytic process.
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Information
Topic
PsicologíaSubtopic
Salud mental en psicologíaIndex
absence of reference, 209–10
actings-out, 69
adolescence, 236, 256, 257–58, 261, 266–67, 271
adult relations, 245
aesthetic intelligence, 45
affective states, 69, 120, 191
aggression, 183, 211
aleatory objects, 21, 26, 30, 37, 43
Americanism, 167
analysand(s), 5–6, 26, 131; collaborative work with analyst in constructing psychic structures, 75, 77–78, 92–94, 99–100, 102, 120
analyst, see psychoanalyst(s)
analytic partnership: split in, 174–80, 181, 191–92; see also psychoanalytic relationship
analytic work, 76, 77–78, 80; as dream work, 97–98, 99–100
annihilation; idealized, 203; of opposition, 205
anticathexes, 73
Antigone, 235
anti-human (the), 206
anti-rationalism, 249
anxiety, 24, 157, 197, 230, 262
Anzieu, Didier, 36n2
Arendt, Hannah, 195, 196, 199, 200
Armenians, massacre of, 194
Ars Poetica (Milosz), 87
artists, 39–40, 78–79, 86, 242, 252
arts (the), 274; see also under specific kind, e.g., painters, painting
Athens, 220
attentiveness (analyst), 97, 101
Auschwitz self, 199
bad object, 71
Bakunin, Mikhail, 198
Baldwin, James, 146, 147, 148, 155, 158–59
Barker, Clive, 251
basic trust, 53
Baudelaire, Charles Pierre, 84
Beat movement, 253, 266
Beatles, 257, 258, 259, 260, 268
Beauvoir, Simone de, 263
being, 22, 27–28, 51, 263; potential, 4, 15
being a character, 47–65
belief, 200
Bergson, Henri, 67n1
Bernstein, Leonard, 273
Bettelheim, Bruno, 215–16
binding: in ideology, 201–2, 203, 205
Bion, Wilfred, 22n2, 72, 97, 103, 108
bisexuality, 222
Block, Marc, 253
Bloom, Harold, 186
body positioni...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Frontmatter
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Original Half Title page
- Introduction
- Part I
- 1 Aspects of Self Experiencing
- 2 The Evocative Object
- 3 Being a Character
- 4 Psychic Genera
- 5 The Psychoanalyst's Use of Free Association
- Part II
- 6 Cutting
- 7 Cruising in the Homosexual Arena
- 8 Violent Innocence
- 9 The Fascist State of Mind
- 10 Why Oedipus?
- 11 Generational Consciousness
- References
- Index