Being a Character Psychoanalysis and Self Experience
Being a Character Psychoanalysis and Self Experience by Christopher Bollas, published by Psychology Press in 1993, offers an in-depth exploration of the unconscious meanings individuals attach to the objects in their lives. This edition spans 294 pages and is presented in English. Bollas utilizes Freud’s model of dreamwork to illustrate how individuals navigate their psychic histories, emphasizing the collaborative role of the analyst and patient in reshaping self-experience through unconscious processes.
Readers will find a detailed examination of various forms of self-experience, including complex issues such as self-harm, the experiences of homosexual individuals in social settings, and the psychological dynamics of oppressive political states. Bollas provides original interpretations of classical psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice, inviting readers to engage with the intricate nature of psychoanalysis and its implications for mental health and personality development. This work is a significant contribution to the fields of psychology and psychotherapy, offering insights into the interplay between personal history and self-identity.
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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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