Name: The Evocative Object World
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Author: Christopher Bollas
ISBN: 9780415473941

Type

Physical Book

Author

Christopher Bollas

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2008

Language

English

Pages

132

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.3 x 12.7 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN

0415473942

ISBN13

9780415473941

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Evocative Object World "

In The Evocative Object World Christopher Bollas builds on Freud's account of dream formation, combining it with perceptive clinical, theoretical and cultural insights to show how the psychoanalytical method can provide a rich understanding of what has traditionally been regarded as 'the outside world'.Moving from the fundamentals of the free associative technique, through an examination of how architecture and the built environment interact with individual and societal dream life, Bollas extends the work of psychoanalysis beyond relations with literature and culture to the actual objects which surround us.As with the evocative external structures of our environment, Bollas describes how the family, with its inherited genetic structures, likewise constitutes a pre-existent unconscious formation into which we are placed, and demonstrates that there is more to this multifaceted unit than the traditional psychoanalytical notion of the Oedipal triangle.In the process, Bollas also provides a fascinating and comprehensive review of how his own theories have evolved over the past three decades: a period during which, in his view, Western society has increasingly neglected - or even become actively hostile towards - unconscious life.Throughout this engaging and accessible text, Bollas rejects the simplistic notion that mental life is unconsciously determined. Instead he provides a compelling study of how unconscious life is shaped by a diverse array of both internal and external factors, and how the work of the Freudian pair provides the best means to gain insight into our dreams, our surroundings, our families - and our mental life as a whole.

Christopher Bollas

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Christopher Bollas, born in 1943 in Washington D.C., is a renowned British psychoanalyst and writer of American origin. He graduated in History from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned a PhD in English Literature at the University of Buffalo. His psychoanalytic training was conducted at the Tavistock Clinic and the British Psychoanalytical Society, where he was influenced by figures such as Paula Heimann and Marion Milner.

Among his most notable works are "The Shadow of the Object" (1987), "Being a Character" (1992), and "The Freudian Moment" (2007). These works, belonging to the psychoanalytic genre, have significantly contributed to the contemporary theory and practice of psychoanalysis.

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