Forces of Destiny: Psychoanalysis and Human Idiom

by Christopher Bollas

Overview

Forces of Destiny examines and reflects on one of the most fundamental questions – what is it that is unique about us as individuals? How does it manifest itself in our personalities, our lives, relationships and in the psychoanalytic process?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138691995
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/29/2018
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Christopher Bollas is a psychoanalyst and former professor of English. His last book was Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment.

Table of Contents

2018 Preface

Introduction

Part One

1 A Theory for the True Self

2 The Destiny Drive

3 Off the Wall

4 The Psychoanalyst’s Celebration of the Analysand

5 The Psychoanalyst’s Multiple Function

Part Two

6 The Ghostline Personality

7 ‘Tripping’

8 The Anti-Narcissist

9 The Trauma of Incest

10 ‘Don’t Worry Your Father’

11 Historical Sets and the Conservative Process

Glossary

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Christopher Bollas:

"One of the two most important living theoreticians in the world of psychoanalysis."-

Al Haaretz

"The most influential psychoanalyst writing in English today."-The Townsend Center, University of California, Berkeley

"The most evocative psychoanalytic writer we have."-

Adam Phillips

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