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
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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...
One of the most interesting theorists in contemporary psychoanalysis, Bollas emphasizes both the creativity of subjectivity itself and the key place o...
This work charts pathways in psychoanalytic thinking about art and the artist, revising views held in applied psychoanalysis and adding new dimensions to clinical thinking about the artist and the artistic process. Roland investigates identity issues and inner struggles involved in the developing artistic career. In the second section he focuses on the use of imagery by artists in the creative formation of poetic metaphors and paradoxes, and the metaphorical portrayal of the artist's inner world. In a challenge to a pervasive assumption in psychoanalysis Roland argues that aesthetic form...
This work charts pathways in psychoanalytic thinking about art and the artist, revising views held in applied psychoanalysis and adding new dimensions...
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 a vitality rarely found in psychoanalytic writing. The contributors to this volume offer definitions and illustrations that make Bollas'...
This eclectic collection of essays reflects the far-reaching, multi-dimensional influence of Christopher Bollas. Bollas galvanises our understanding o...
Offers an alternative view of transsexuality from a psychiatric and European point of view. This book draws together the insights of depth psychology, psychoanalysis, history, anthropology and sociology for rethinking transsexualism in terms of identity, subjectivity and the wider socio-historical world.
Offers an alternative view of transsexuality from a psychiatric and European point of view. This book draws together the insights of depth psychology,...
