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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821779303321

Titolo

The vitality of objects : exploring the work of Christopher Bollas / / edited by Joseph Scalia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Middletown, CT, : Wesleyan University Press, 2002

ISBN

1-4462-6610-9

1-283-88018-0

0-8264-5569-7

Edizione

[1st US ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 228 p., [4] p. of plates) : col. ill

Collana

Disseminations psychoanalysis in contexts

Altri autori (Persone)

ScaliaJoseph

Disciplina

150.195

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I - Essays from Psychoanalysis; Chapter 1 - Lost in Thought: The Receptive Unconscious; Chapter 2 - Idiom, Intuition and Unconscious Intelligence: Thoughts on Some Aspects of the Writings of Christopher Bollas; Chapter 3 - Futures; Chapter 4 - Transformational, Conservative and Terminal Objects: The Application of Bollas's Concepts to Practice; Chapter 5 - 'Love is Where it Finds You': The Caprices of the 'Aleatory Object'; Part II - Essays from other Disciplines

Chapter 6 - Returns of the Repressed: Some New Applications of Psychoanalysis to EthnographyChapter 7 - Of Knowledge and Mothers: On the Work of Christopher Bollas; Chapter 8 - The Poetics of Analysis: Klein, Bollas and the Theory of the Text; 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; Chapter 10 - Painting into a Corner: Representation as Shelter; Chapter 11 - Cracking up the Audience; Part III - A Conversation with Christopher Bollas; Christopher Bollas; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This 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.