The Shadow of the Object: Psychoanalysis of the Unthought Known: 30th Anniversary Edition

Author(s) : Christopher Bollas

The Shadow of the Object: Psychoanalysis of the Unthought Known: 30th Anniversary Edition

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2017
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 224
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 40615
  • ISBN 13 : 9781138218444
  • ISBN 10 : 1138218448

Table of Contents

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

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