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

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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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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