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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scalia, Joseph.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Disseminations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bollas, Christopher.

Psychoanalysis.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi, 228 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First US edition.

Other Title:

Exploring the work of Christopher Bollas

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 2002.

Summary:

This distinctive collection marks the far-reaching influence of Christopher Bollas's lifework and thought. In documenting the originality, and indeed the compelling "vitality," of Bollas's writings, the contributors do more than pay tribute to one of the world's most innovative psychoanalysts: what they also offer, in rich bold brushstrokes, is an exquisite and timely picture of the fertile landscapes in art, literature, and other disciplines that border and bridge contemporary psychoanalysis.

Contents:

Part I Essays from Psychoanalysis

1. Lost in Thought: The Receptive Unconscious / Joel Beck 9

2. Idiom, Intuition and Unconscious Intelligence: Thoughts on Some Aspects of the Writings of Christopher Bollas / Arne Jemstedt 37

3. Futures / Adam Phillips 53

4. Transformational, Conservative and Terminal Objects: The Application of Bollas's Concepts to Practice / Gabriela Mann 58

5. 'Love Is Where It Finds You': The Caprices of the 'Aleatory Object' / James S. Grotstein 78

Part II Essays from Other Disciplines

6. Returns of the Repressed: Some New Applications of Psychoanalysis to Ethnography / Anthony Molino, Wesley Shumar 95

7. Of Knowledge and Mothers: On the Work of Christopher Bollas / Jacqueline Rose 108

8. The Poetics of Analysis: Klein, Bollas and the Theory of the Text / Joanne Feit Diehl 125

9. 'If My Mouth Could Marry a Hurt Like That!': Reading Auto-Mutilation, Auto-Biography in the Work of Christopher Bollas and Sylvia Plath / Michael Szollosy 139

10. Painting into a Corner: Representation as Shelter / Greg Drasler 158

11. Cracking Up the Audience / Kate Browne 166

Part III A Conversation with Christopher Bollas

Christopher Bollas, interviewed by Anthony Molino 179.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0819565350

0819565342

OCLC:

50600089