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 … More Toni Erdmann: the outburst of the absurd
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 … More TALKING WITH BOLLAS I: Ontological Conflicts in Psychoanalysis
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 … More Interview: When the Sun Bursts – The enigma of schizophrenia
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 … More The difficult art of being together (or to break up)
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 … More Bollasing the Clinic
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 … More Christopher Bollas— Trauma and GENERA[1]
Amnéris Maroni Several Ways of Denying Reality A very short article by Sigmund Freud titled The Negation (1925) is a true gem of the psychoanalytical thinking. It was recently released by Cosac Naify, with translation, introduction and notes by Marilene Carone, and texts by Vladimir Safatle, Newton da Costa and Andrés R. Raggio. With … More Violent Innocent: Omission and Confidence
Amnéris Maroni Undeniably, The Best Film of the Year. The Nightcrawler was an unexplainable absence on the list of the Oscar’s nominations for best picture in 2015. Not even Jake Gyllenhaal (Louis/Lou Bloom) who is superb in this role, better than in Brokeback Mountain, was remembered in the academy. In that year, … More THE NIGHTCRAWLER
INTRODUCTION: FEAR AND PERPLEXITY Pablo Trapero’s film The Clan (El Clan, 2015) — previously he had directed Leonera (2008), Carancho (2010), White Elephant (2012) — is an extraordinary cinematic piece. We should also qualify as equally extraordinary Guillermo Francella’s acting performances in the role of Arquímedes Puccio — he is a famous comedy actor, therefore, … More THE CLAN
INTRODUCTION: CHRISTOPHER BOLLAS AS THINKER AND ARTIST (by João Paulo Ayub) Among other ideas expressed by Christopher Bollas in his interview to Anneleen Masschelein, one draws special attention: “…I was rescued from that crisis through writing”! The fictional world saved him in a moment of writing block. Not only this: the submersion … More CHRISTOPHER BOLLAS AS THINKER AND ARTIST
