Being a Character: Psychoanalysis and Self Experience

by Christopher Bollas

Reconsiders the theoretical and clinical issues of psychoanalysis, showing how people invest the objects in their lives with unconscious meaning, subsequently causing them to consistently relive their psychic histories.

Genres: Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Nonfiction

294 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Christopher Bollas, Ph.D. is a Member of the International Psychoanalytical Association and has been practicing for over fifty years. Former Director of Education at the Austen Riggs Center he was Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Institute of Child Neuropsychiatry of the University of Rome. He is a prolific author and international lecturer.

Reviews

[Alona Nikolaienko (Kiiko) · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[William Yonts · Rating 5 out of 5]

My third Bollas book that I’ve read this year, and I plan on reading more, at least The Infinite Question and Forces of Destiny. How funny that, in a book that explores the various ways we use internal and external objects to elaborate the self, I feel so many new avenues of thought opening up, the book acting as a sort of generative self-fulfilling prophecy. My favorite new ideas here are those of genera and the receptive unconscious, useful corollaries to trauma and the repressive unconscious, and how both sides of the receptive/repressive unconscious inform the essays in the second half.