In The Evocative Object World Christopher Bollas builds on
Freud's account of dream formation, combining it with perceptive
clinical, theoretical and cultural insights to show how the
psychoanalytical method can provide a rich understanding of what
has traditionally been regarded as 'the outside world'.
Moving from the fundamentals of the free associative technique,
through an examination of how architecture and the built
environment interact with individual and societal dream life,
Bollas extends the work of psychoanalysis beyond relations with
literature and culture to the actual objects which surround us.
As with the evocative external structures of our environment,
Bollas describes how the family, with its inherited genetic
structures, likewise constitutes a pre-existent unconscious
formation into which we are placed, and demonstrates that there is
more to this multifaceted unit than the traditional
psychoanalytical notion of the Oedipal triangle.
In the process, Bollas also provides a fascinating and
comprehensive review of how his own theories have evolved over the
past three decades: a period during which, in his view, Western
society has increasingly neglected or even become actively hostile
towards unconscious life.
Throughout this engaging and accessible text, Bollas rejects the
simplistic notion that mental life is unconsciously determined.
Instead he provides a compelling study of how unconscious life is
shaped by a diverse array of both internal and external factors,
and how the work of the Freudian pair provides the best means to
gain insight into our dreams, our surroundings, our families and
our mental life as a whole.
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