The Vitality of Objects
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The Vitality of Objects

Exploring the Work of Christopher Bollas

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eBook - PDF

The Vitality of Objects

Exploring the Work of Christopher Bollas

About this book

`One of the most interesting theorists in contemporary psychoanalysis, Bollas emphasizes both the creativity of subjectivity itself and the key place of experience in the formation of psychical constructions and fantasy? - Anthony Elliott, Centre for Critical Theory, University of the West of England

This eclectic collection of essays reflects the far-reaching, multi-dimensional influence of Christopher Bollas. Bollas galvanises our understanding of what happens when people encounter the objects - the endlessly variegated content - of external reality. Each of us has our own unique idiom through which we endow objects - a painting, a football, a stranger - with special meaning. Bollas has added depth to our understanding of these relationships with vitality rarely found in psychoanalytic writing. The contributors to this volume offer definitions and illustrations that make Bollas? thought accessible for those approaching his work for the first time and illuminating for those more familiar with his canon. The Vitality of Objects reveals the possibilities for self-expression and growth that figure in the process of object relations and shows how and why thinkers and artists from so many different perspectives are attracted to Bollas? thought.

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Information

Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd
Year
2002
Print ISBN
9780826455697, 9780826455680
eBook ISBN
9781446266106
Edition
1
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Psychotherapy
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Notes on Contributors
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction
  7. Part I - Essays from Psychoanalysis
  8. Chapter 1 - Lost in Thought: The Receptive Unconscious
  9. Chapter 2 - Idiom, Intuition and Unconscious Intelligence: Thoughts on Some Aspects of the Writings of Christopher Bollas
  10. Chapter 3 - Futures
  11. Chapter 4 - Transformational, Conservative and Terminal Objects: The Application of Bollas's Concepts to Practice
  12. Chapter 5 - 'Love is Where it Finds You': The Caprices of the 'Aleatory Object'
  13. Part II - Essays from other Disciplines
  14. Chapter 6 - Returns of the Repressed: Some New Applications of Psychoanalysis to Ethnography
  15. Chapter 7 - Of Knowledge and Mothers: On the Work of Christopher Bollas
  16. Chapter 8 - The Poetics of Analysis: Klein, Bollas and the Theory of the Text
  17. Chapter 9 - 'If My Mouth Could Marry a Hurt like That!': Reading Auto-Mutilation, Auto-Biography in the Work of Christopher Bollas and Sylvia Plath
  18. Chapter 10 - Painting into a Corner: Representation as Shelter
  19. Chapter 11 - Cracking up the Audience
  20. Part III - A Conversation with Christopher Bollas
  21. Christopher Bollas
  22. Selected Bibliography
  23. Index