In The Shadow of the Object, Christopher Bollas integrates aspects of Freud's theory of unconscious thinking with elements from the British Object Relations School. In doing so, he offers radical new visions of the scope of psychoanalysis and expands our understanding of the creativity of the unconscious mind and the aesthetics of human character. Published here with a new preface by Bollas, The Shadow of the Object remains a classic of the psychoanalytic literature, written by a truly original thinker.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface to the 2017 Edition
Introduction
I THE SHADOW OF THE OBJECT
1 The transformational object
2 The spirit of the object as the hand of fate
3 The self as object
4 At the other's play: to dream
5 The trisexual
II MOODS
6 Moods and the conservative process
7 Loving hate
8 Normotic illness
9 Extractive introjection
III COUNTERTRANSFERENCE
10 The liar
11 The psychoanalyst and the hysteric
12 Expressive uses of the countertransference
13 Self analysis and the countertransference
14 Ordinary regression to dependence
IV EPILOGUE
15 The unthought known: early considerations
