This area for writing and experiences is dedicated to the work of the North-american writer and psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas. Bollas's thoughts shall be spotted in multiple connections with other fields of knowledge: the psychoanalysis schools, the philosophy, the literature, and the cinema. Moreover, the debate among the many psychoanalysis schools is our leading interest.
Vera Barbosa Review of Sarah Nettleton’s The Metapsychology of Christopher Bollas: An Introduction, Sao Paulo, Escuta, 2018. Key words: Christopher Bollas’s metapsychology, personal idiom, receptive unconscious, unthought known. In about thirty years of direct contact with the Bollasian work, Sarah Nettleton, a psychoanalyst in London, had the opportunity to examine the author’s thinking,... Continue Reading →
I've posted on my Facebook page, a short quotation of Christopher Bollas on the Fascist Mind. Such quotation raised a nice debate, a vivid discussion with various psychoanalysts. For this reason, that post and its following debate opens this section Talking About Bollas. Amnéris Maroni. The Bollasian Concept of Fascism and Other Comments. Fascism can... Continue Reading →
by João Paulo Ayub Elaborate Selves: Reflections and Reveries (Routledge) is a volume of interviews published in 1997, in which some psychoanalysts and culture scholars were invited to compose a set of analyses and reflections on the “status of the self in the contemporary world”.1 According to Anthony Molino, interviewer and book editor, the... Continue Reading →
João Paulo Ayub The hell of the living is not something that will be: if there is one, it is what is already here, the hell where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the... Continue Reading →
Amnéris Maroni In an interview for Revista Percurso (1998), Christopher Bollas presents us an interesting political debate within psychoanalysis: a war among the schools that assume pure minds, non-contaminated minds, and that is, from the author’s perspective, one of the features typical of a fascist mind. That war would also nullify one of the... Continue Reading →
Interview: When the Sun Bursts - The enigma of schizophrenia João Paulo Ayub “Schizophrenia is enigmatic”. This sentence, extracted from Christopher Bollas’s book When the Sun Bursts, doesn’t translate just the psychoanalyst’s/writer’s intellectual curiosity, someone who has dedicated decades of his life to the treatment of people who experiments very difficult psychic events. Together with an... Continue Reading →
The difficult art of being together (or to break up) Luis Fernando Santos No self-help preacher feels any embarrassment in talking about endings. Dates, marriages, jobs, ideas, erotic relations—all that sort of things with which a subject relates herself and psychoanalysis calls objects[1]—come to an end. We are finite, and all of us are... Continue Reading →
Amnéris Maroni Introduction Some memorable pages in the book Forces of Destiny, by Christopher Bollas[1], demand our close attention, because they redefine the analytical setting in a radical fashion. Let’s not forget that Bollas is a contemporary writer and a singular Winnicottian and Bionian analyst. On an interview for Revista Percurso [2], Bollas tells... Continue Reading →
Amnéris Maroni Introduction I’ll deal with three important books by Christopher Bollas in this text. Nowadays, Bollas is one of the most outstanding and creative psychoanalysts in the world. He is an American, but has a formation in the British Psychoanalytical Society. He has written many books, and among them the following have already... Continue Reading →
