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Being a Character: Psychoanalysis and Self Experience

By Christopher Bollas

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2003
ISBN
0415088151, 9780415088152
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13933894 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
304\305
Topic
Psychology
Time added
2016-07-02 20:34:19
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Description

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 patient use such unconscious processes to develop new psychic structures that the patient can use to alter his or her self experience. Building on this foundation, he goes on to describe some very special forms of self experience, including the tragic madness of women cutting themselves, the experience of a cruising homosexual in bars and bathes and the demented ferocity of the facist state of mind. An original interpreter of classical theory and clinical issues, in Being a Character Christopher Bollas takes the reader into the very texture of the psychoanalytic process.

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