Christopher bollas the shadow of the object

Reviews of The Shadow of the Object: Psychoanalysis of the Unthought Known. He finds his own way through the tribes of contemporary psychoanalysis, not as a follower, but as a single wanderer through the United States, England, and France mainly.'-Andre Green 'A member of the Independent Group of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, Christopher Bollas is a truly independent thinker. Published here with a new preface by Christopher Bollas, The Shadow of the Object remains a classic of the psychoanalytic literature, written by a truly original thinker. Within the unique analytic relationship, it becomes possible, at least in part, to think the unthought - an experience that has enormous transformative potential. Bollas has termed this 'the unthought known', a phrase that has ramified through many realms of human exploration, including the worlds of letters, psychology and the arts.ДЄspects of the unthought known -the primary repressed unconscious -will emerge during a psychoanalysis, as a mood, the aesthetic of a dream, or in our relation to the self as other. Most of this experience will never be consciously thought, and but it resides within us as assumed knowledge. 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.Дuring our formative years, we are continually 'impressed' by the object world. 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.

Christopher bollas the shadow of the object