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Elaborate Selves - Reflections and Reveries of Christopher Bollas, Michael Eigen, Polly Young-Eisendrath, Samuel and Ev (Hardcover)
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Elaborate Selves - Reflections and Reveries of Christopher Bollas, Michael Eigen, Polly Young-Eisendrath, Samuel and Ev (Hardcover)
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In this fascinating volume, Anthony Molino interviews some of today
s foremost thinkers in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Organized
around the fertile and controversial concept of multiplicity,
Elaborate Selves explores the life work and thought of a diverse
group of therapists who have played key roles in furthering
postmodern perspectives on self experience. Through five engaging
conversations, readers discover how discontinuities in self
experience reflect phenomena that are both fundamental to
formations of human identity and central to an understanding of
contemporary relationships. Throughout the strands of these
interviews, theory and practice come alive in a multivocal
exploration at the intersections of culture and history, ideology
and instinct, biology and fantasy, nostalgia and hope, and,
ultimately, of trauma and treatment.Elaborate Selves explores the
postmodern concern with the notion of a "multiple" or "fragmented"
self. In this context, the stories, lives, and "selves" of the very
therapists interviewed are seen to reflect predicaments and
tensions of the culture at-large. Each interview explores a
therapist s unique contribution to the field while making
connections between efforts and theories that at a first glance
appear remarkably diverse. Among these are: the constructivism of
Jungian Buddhist and feminist Polly Young-Eisendrath; the inspired
object-relations theorizing of Christopher Bollas; and the mystic
sensibilities of Michael Eigen. Readers will find that the depth
and complexities of the following issues are rendered in a language
that is at once both compelling and accessible: contemporary
theories of the "self" and implications for clinical practice
psychoanalysis and postmodernism psychoanalysis and spirituality
myth and ritual as a basis for self-knowledge and group
psychotherapyA fundamental text for clinicians and students of all
schools of psychoanalysis, contemporary social theory, philosophy
and religious thought, Elaborate Selves is a major contribution to
the ever-growing genre of the interview. Indeed, the interviews
collected in this unique volume offer more than an exciting
exploration of a singular group of life experiences. They probe
beyond the biographical to illustrate connections between personal
and intellectual history and between life experience, culture, and
the production of knowledge in an increasingly complex world.
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