Interview with Sarah Nettleton, author of The Metapsychology of Christopher Bollas: An introduction.

Published in the Magazine online Percurso, edition 61, year XXXI. December 2018.   Link:http://revistapercurso.uol.com.br/index.php?apg=artigo_view&ida=1335&ori=edicao&id_edicao= About Sarah Nettleton interview Camila Salles Gonçalves by the Editorial Board of Reviews The interview complements the review of Maria Vera Lucia Barbosa, of the Metapsychology of Christopher Bollas: An Introduction, São Paulo, listen, 2018, 151ps. It is a collaboration that provides the reader with a perspective for the approximation of the work presented in the section Readings 61

Through the paths of Christopher Bollas: Pshychoanalytic theory and clinic

Review of Sarah Nettleton’s The Metapsychology of Christopher Bollas: An Introduction, Sao Paulo, Escuta, 2018.Published in the Magazine Percurso, edition 61, year XXXI. December 2018.                    Link:http://revistapercurso.uol.com.br/index.php?apg=artigo_view&ida=1335&ori=edicao&id_edicao= Sarah Nettleton, one of the editors of Christopher Bollas's books, wrote, in 2017, The Metapsychology of Christopher Bollas: An Introduction. This book set to be launched in Brazil in 2018. The book addresses major themes of the Bollasian theory and technique such as the receptive unconscious, the psychic genera, the personal idiom, the unthought known, among others. And, with precise referential indications, Sarah shows the reader insightful ways of exploring and diving deep into Bollas's work. Key words: Christopher Bollas’s metapsychology, personal idiom, receptive unconscious, unthought known.

The Fascist Mind

Amnéris Maroni   INTRODUCTION   Let’s start by taking into account Márcia Tiburi’s question: How to talk to a fascist? (Tiburi, 2017), so that we might debate the author’s answer and try to provide a response to the same question by considering a psychoanalytical viewpoint presented by Christopher Bollas in his essay “The fascist state...

UNFOLDING THE SELF/DESTINY AND JOUISSANCE

Amnéris Maroni1   Sarah Nettleton has been Bollas’s supervisee and assistant, as well as the editor of some of his books. Sarah’s new book, The Metapsychology of Christopher Bollas: An Introduction, has just been published in Brazil, by Escuta publishing house, with an impeccable translation by Liracio Jr. Both Bollas and Sarah, in her books,...

Preface (The Christopher Bollas Reader) by Adam Philips

Some words by Amnéris Maroni: Adam Phillips has written a short, sharp and precious preface  to the book Christopher Bollas Reader, Routledge.  Phillips has several books published in Brazil and highlights two of them: Going sane and Winnicott, the latter being one of the best interpretations of the English psychoanalyst. It is in the condition of...

Christopher Bollas’s Poetic Listening

  João Paulo Ayub   “…when it comes to character reception, the analyst’s sensibility is akin to the frame of mind one is in when listening to poetry”. Christopher Bollas   Christopher Bollas is a singular author within the psychoanalytic tradition. Such a statement could be illustrated from an ensemble of concepts, theories, and developments...

Character and Interformality

Amnéris Maroni ‘Character and interformality’ is one of the most impressive chapters from the book The Christopher Bollas Reader, published in London in 2011. Since his first books, in the late 80’s, especially in Forces of Destiny, which now gains a new translation and edition by the Brazilian publishing house Escuta, Bollas has dealt with...

Digressions on the Concept of Character in Christopher Bollas: Approaches and Distinctions with Winnicott.

  Vera Barbosa In the introduction to his book Hysteria, Christopher Bollas considers that, by approaching something as complex as hysteria, we are obliged to use all points of view and knowledge to distinguish the essential features and to have an integrated view of the functioning of the hysterical character. Equally relevant are the biological...

The Bollasian Concept of Fascism and Other Commentaries

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...