The vitality of objects : exploring the work of Christopher Bollas
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The vitality of objects : exploring the work of Christopher Bollas
（Disseminations : psychoanalysis in contexts）
Continuum, 2002
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Selected bibliography : Books by Christopher Bollas : p. [223]
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`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.
Table of Contents
PART ONE - ESSAYS FROM PSYCHOANALYSIS
Lost in Thought - Joel Beck
The Receptive Unconscious
Idiom, Intuition and Unconcious Intelligence - Arne Jemstedt
Thoughts on Some Aspects of the Writings of Christopher Bollas
Futures - Adam Phillips
Transformational, Conservative and Terminal Objects - Gabriela Mann
The Application of Bollas's Concepts to Practice
`Love Is Where It Finds You' - James S. Grotstein
The Caprices of the `Aleatory Object'
PART TWO - ESSAYS FROM OTHER DISCIPLINES
Returns of the Repressed - Anthony Molino and Wesley Shumar
Some New Applications of Psychoanalysis to Ethnography
Of Knowledge and Mothers - Jacqueline Rose
On the work of Christopher Bollas
The Poetics of Analysis - Joanne Feit Diehl
Klein, Bollas and the Theory of the Text
`If My Mouth Could Marry a Hurt Like That!' - Michael Szollosy
Reading Auto-Mutilation, Auto-Biography in the Work of Christopher Bollas and Sylvia Plath
Painting Into a Corner - Greg Drasler
Representation as Shelter
Cracking Up the Audience - Kate Browne
PART THREE - A CONVERSATION WITH CHRISTOPHER BOLLAS
Christopher Bollas, Interviewed by Anthony Molino
Christopher Bollas, Selected Bibliography
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