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Cracking Up - The Work Of Unconscious Experience (Paperback)
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Cracking Up - The Work Of Unconscious Experience (Paperback)
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In this important new book, the distinguished psychoanalyst
Christopher Bollas extends his exploration of the inner world of
human experience. In Being a Character, he argued that Freud's
vision of the dream process is a model for all unconscious mental
experience. In Cracking Up, he suggests that the rhythm of that
experience-from moments of psychic intensity which we have every
day and which we respond to first by cracking up the various
factors that went to into them (remembered, bodily, instinctual),
and then by recombining them in a new understanding of
ourselves-that this unconscious rhythm, fully engaged in, is vital
to individual creativity. It develops what Bollas calls a separate
sense, with which we assess the immeasurable meanings of our own
experience and which are sympathetically attuned to the lives of
other people. Bollas examines how people educate one another in the
idioms of their unconscious lives, and he considers the nature and
consequences of the traumas that inhibit the freedom to do this. He
studies what we mean by the past-is it ominously unchangeable, or
can history be a creative, open understanding of experience? We
come to know who we are by giving form and meaning to our past, yet
what do we mean by the self? Bollas's answer suggests yet more ways
in which the separate sense expresses each person's unique
qualities.
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