Abstract
What is goal of psychoanalysis? What is it that only it can do? Christopher Bollas raises these and other questions in his writings on psychoanalysis. The Vitality of Objects is a stunning collection of essays exploring work of Christopher Bollas, described by Adam Phillips as the most evocative psychoanalytic writer we have. Through such influential books as The Shadow of Object, The Mystery of Things, Cracking Up, Being a Character, Forces of Destiny, Hysteria, and with David Sundelson, The New Informants, Bollas's ideas have reached beyond psychoanalytic community and proven equally relevant in arts, social sciences and humanities. In marking scope of his concepts, editor and contributors have retained Bollas's own commitment to clarity and complexity, opposing what Adam Phillips terms the insidious violence of oversimplification so prevalent in contemporary interdisciplinary thought. Broadly influential and potent, inspired by vigor and fertility of Bollas's writing, these essays significantly enhance contemporary discourse on nature of self. CONTRIBUTORS: Joel Beck, Kate Browne, Joanne Feit Diehl, Greg Drasler, James Grotstein, Arne Jemstedt, Gabriela Mann, Anthony Molino, Adam Phillips, Jacqueline Rose, Joseph Scalia, Wesley Shumar, Michael Szollosy.
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