1st Edition
Being a Character Psychoanalysis and Self Experience
By Christopher Bollas
Copyright 1992
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction. Part I: Aspects of Self Experiencing. The Evocative Object. Being a Character. Psychic Genera. The Psychoanalyst's Use of Free Association. Part II: Cutting. Cruising in the Homosexual Arena. Violent Innocence. The Fascist State of Mind. Contents. Why Oedipus? Generational Conciousness. References. Index.
Biography
Christopher Bollas
"Being a Character explores the subject of self-knowledge and the individuals' construction of meaning in their lives. It is always stimulating, particularly through the author's use of his own self-experience. This book is well worth reading by anyone involved in psychotherapy or related work. Indeed, it could fruitfully be read by a much wider audience." - Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
