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Being a Character - Psychoanalysis and Self Experience (Paperback)
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Being a Character - Psychoanalysis and Self Experience (Paperback)
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Being a Character shows how each person unconsciously invests the
ordinary objects of life with particular and private meaning. As
each person subsequently voyages through the environment, he
encounters objects that are already laden with previously invested
meaning. In this sense the individual is evoked by encounters with
objects. Taking Freud's theory of the dream work as a model for all
unconscious thinking, Bollas argues that we dream work ourselves
into becoming who we are, and he illustrates how the analyst and
the patient use unconscious processes to develop new psychic
structures that the patient can use to alter his or her self
experience. Building on this ground, the latter part of the book
describes very special kinds of self experience, including the
tragic madness of women cutting themselves, the odd experience of a
cruising homosexual in bars and baths, the demented ferocity of the
Fascist state of mind, and every person's self experience as a
member of his or her historical epoch. He includes a seminal
chapter on the Oedipus Complex, arguing that Sophocles and Freud
point to an entirely different 'resolution' than heretofore argued
in any of the schools of psychoanalytic thought. The main purpose
of Being a Character is to rethink the nature of the individual's
creation of a lived environment, and the author draws on his
clinical experience as well as the notebooks and the writings of
poets, scientists, painters, sculptors, and anthropologists to
support his view that each person dreams himself into existence and
walks about in his own private dream.
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