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Hysteria
By Christopher Bollas
198 pages
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Synopsis
Hysteria has disappeared from contemporary culture only insofar as it has been subjected to a repression through the popular diagnosis of 'borderline personality disorder'.In Hysteria the distinguished psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas offers an original and illuminating theory of hysteria that weaves its well-known features - repressed sexual ideas; indifference to conversion; over-identification with the other - into the hysteric form.Through a rereading of Freud, Bollas argues that sexuality in ...
Hysteria has disappeared from contemporary culture only insofar as it has been subjected to a repression through the popular diagnosis of 'borderline personality disorder'.In Hysteria the distinguished psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas offers an original and illuminating theory of hysteria that weaves its well-known features - repressed sexual ideas; indifference to conversion; over-identification with the other - into the hysteric form.Through a rereading of Freud, Bollas argues that sexuality in itself is traumatic to all children, as it 'destroys' the relation to the mother, transfiguring her from 'mamma', the infant's caregiver, to 'mother', the child's and father's sex object. For the hysteric this recognition is endlessly traumatic and the hysterical personality forms itself into an organised opposition to this knowledge.True to his earlier writings, Bollas' vision is thought provoking and mind expanding. Hysteria brings new perspectives to long-standing ideas, making enlightening reading for students and professionals involved in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy alike, as well as the lay reader who takes an interest in the formation of personality in western culture.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- Introduction 1
- Chapter 1 - The Characters of Psychoanalysis 4
- Chapter 2 - Sexual Epiphany 13
- Chapter 3 - Sexuality and Its Transformations 27
- Chapter 4 - In the Beginning is the Mother 41
- Chapter 5 - Erotising Absence 61
- Chapter 6 - Functions of the Father 71
- Chapter 7 - The Seduction of the Story 87
- Chapter 8 - Hot and Cold 98
- Chapter 9 - Showing Off 107
- Chapter 10 - Self as Theatre 117
- Chapter 11 - The Malignant Hysteric 127
- Chapter 12 - Transference Addicts 146
- Chapter 13 - Seduction and the Therapist 152
- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- Introduction 1
- Chapter 1 - The Characters of Psychoanalysis 4
- Chapter 2 - Sexual Epiphany 13
- Chapter 3 - Sexuality and Its Transformations 27
- Chapter 4 - In the Beginning is the Mother 41
- Chapter 5 - Erotising Absence 61
- Chapter 6 - Functions of the Father 71
- Chapter 7 - The Seduction of the Story 87
- Chapter 8 - Hot and Cold 98
- Chapter 9 - Showing Off 107
- Chapter 10 - Self as Theatre 117
- Chapter 11 - The Malignant Hysteric 127
- Chapter 12 - Transference Addicts 146
- Chapter 13 - Seduction and the Therapist 152
- Chapter 14 - The Last Chapter 162
- References 180
- Index 183