Name: Conversations
SKU: 55906906
Price: 964.00 TWD
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Author: Christopher Bollas
ISBN: 9781800132474

Type

Physical Book

Author

Christopher Bollas

Publisher

Karnac Books

Language

English

Pages

204

Format

Paperback

Weight

0.49 kg.

ISBN13

9781800132474

Synopsis "Conversations"

Christopher Bollas presents us with a new literary form in his Conversations twenty-three unique dialogues to captivate, amuse, and inspire. The psychoanalyst Paula Heimann asked: 'Who is speaking? To whom? About what? And why now?' We speak with the voice and position of many others - mothers, fathers, siblings, teachers - and ordinary conversation therefore stages the history of our interpersonal engagements. Heimann's questions also apply when we talk to ourselves, and our inner dialogues reveal the hidden genius of our private world in which we are both actor and audience, poet and reader, politician and electorate. It's quite a ride, and an art form all of its own.

Christopher Bollas

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Christopher Bollas, born in 1943 in Washington D.C., is a renowned British psychoanalyst and writer of American origin. He graduated in History from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned a PhD in English Literature at the University of Buffalo. His psychoanalytic training was conducted at the Tavistock Clinic and the British Psychoanalytical Society, where he was influenced by figures such as Paula Heimann and Marion Milner.

Among his most notable works are "The Shadow of the Object" (1987), "Being a Character" (1992), and "The Freudian Moment" (2007). These works, belonging to the psychoanalytic genre, have significantly contributed to the contemporary theory and practice of psychoanalysis.

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