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The shadow of the object : psychoanalysis of the unthought known / Christopehr Bollas.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 1987Description: 283, [17] pages 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0231066260
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 150.19/5 19
LOC classification:
  • RC455.4.O23 B65 1987
NLM classification:
  • WM 460.5.O2 B691s
Contents:
Part 1 - 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. Part 2 - Moods. 6 Moods and the conservative process. 7 Loving hate. 8 Normotic illness. 9 Extractive introjection. Part 3 - 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. Part 4 - Epilogue. 15 The unthought known: early considerations
Summary: 'The chapters...all focus in one way or another on the human subject's recording of his or her early experience of the object. This is "the shadow of the object" as it falls on the ego, leaving some trace of its existence in the adult. The object can cast its shadow without a child being able to process this relation through mental representations or language, such as when a parent uses his child to contain projective identifications. As the object affects us, we do know something of its character, but we may not have thought it yet; this is "the unthought known." The work of a clinical psychoanalysis...will partly be preoccupied with the emergence into thought of early memories of being and relating.'
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Includes bibliographic references and index.

Part 1 - 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. Part 2 - Moods. 6 Moods and the conservative process. 7 Loving hate. 8 Normotic illness. 9 Extractive introjection. Part 3 - 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. Part 4 - Epilogue. 15 The unthought known: early considerations

'The chapters...all focus in one way or another on the human subject's recording of his or her early experience of the object. This is "the shadow of the object" as it falls on the ego, leaving some trace of its existence in the adult. The object can cast its shadow without a child being able to process this relation through mental representations or language, such as when a parent uses his child to contain projective identifications. As the object affects us, we do know something of its character, but we may not have thought it yet; this is "the unthought known." The work of a clinical psychoanalysis...will partly be preoccupied with the emergence into thought of early memories of being and relating.'

'The chapters...all focus in one way or another on the human subject's recording of his or her early experience of the object. This is "the shadow of the object" as it falls on the ego, leaving some trace of its existence in the adult. The object can cast its shadow without a child being able to process this relation through mental representations or language, such as when a parent uses his child to contain projective identifications. As the object affects us, we do know something of its character, but we may not have thought it yet; this is "the unthought known." The work of a clinical psychoanalysis...will partly be preoccupied with the emergence into thought of early memories of being and relating.'

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