The Mystery of Things
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : June 1999
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 224
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 8160
- ISBN 13 : 9780415212328
- ISBN 10 : 0415212324
Also by Christopher Bollas
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In The Mystery of Things, Christopher Bollas takes the reader right to the heart of psychotherapy, examining the mysterious aspects of the self that are revealed by analysis.
The method of enquiry at the heart of psychoanalysis, that is, free association, runs contrary to everything that we are taught is the logical, rational, scientific way to acquire data. Yet it is only through using such an apparently illogical and subversive method that the pathological structures in thinking can be penetrated and the self underneath revealed and worked with by the analyst.
Christopher Bollas focuses on the nature and effects of the free associative process. Using clinical studies, he highlights how aspects such as mental illness, and creative or artistic acts can reveal much about the self.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Origins of the therapeutic alliance
2. The place of the psychoanalyst
3. The necessary destructions of psychoanalysis
4. Figures and their functions
5. One, two…seven
6. The goals of psychoanalysis?
7. Mind against self
8. Mental interference
9. Dead mother, dead child
10. Borderline desire
11. Passing on paranoia
12. Occasional madness of the psychoanalyst
13. Embodiment
14. Wording and telling sexuality
15. Creativity and psychoanalysis
16. The mystery of things
About the Author(s)
Christopher Bollas is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies, and Honorary Member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He is a member of ESGUT, the European Study Group of Unconscious Thought.
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