Bücher der Reihe Disseminations: Psychoanalysis in Context

Exploring the artistic process and the concept of the artistic self in terms of self-objects and transformational objects, this work challenges the basic assumption of applied psychoanalysis - that the work of art is a dream or daydream expressed within a formal aesthetic framework.

A collection of essays that reflects the multi-dimensional influence of Christopher Bollas. It reveals the possibilities for self-expression and growth that figure in the process of object relations and shows how and why thinkers and artists from so many different perspectives are attracted to Bollas' thought.

Offers an alternative view of transsexuality from a psychiatric and European point of view. This book draws together the insights of depth psychology, psychoanalysis, history, anthropology and sociology for rethinking transsexualism in terms of identity, subjectivity and the wider socio-historical world.

Christopher Bollas galvanises our understanding of what happens when people encounter the objects - the endlessly variegated content - of external reality. This volume reveals the possibilities for self-expression and growth that figure in the process of object relations and shows how and why thinkers and artists are attracted to Bollas' thought.