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Review by: Miriam L. Altman In The Shadow of the Object, Christopher Bollas attempts to elucidate some particular features of the Object Relations School's theoretical positions and to substantiate them with rich clinical descriptions. His connections to Winnicott, Heiman, Bion, Little, Milner, and Khan are acknowledged as well as evident. Language is very important in this book.

Bollas has an extremely evocative style. However, some of his use of words creates difficulties. In his introduction, Bollas notes that he has learned from his work with the autistic child how to listen to the unspoken.

The silence and cries of the child must be heard. Bollas describes this child's manner: “He lodges himself inside the other, compelling the other to experience the breakdown of language (and hope and desire).

Bollas The Shadow Of The Object

Bollas expounds on his title and clarifies the purpose of the book: “the human subject's recording of his early experiences of the object is the shadow of the object as it falls on the ego, leaving some trace of its existence in the adult ” (p. The treatment process at least partly deals with “the emergence into thought of early memories of being and relating.

The reliving through language of that which is known but not yet thought (what I term the unthought known), is the subject of this book” (pp. Inherent in our field is a problem in the language that psychoanalysts use to delve into theory and treatment issues.

On the one hand, there is a proliferation of jargon that in itself does not further contribute to our overall understanding of the material. Some of the new terms that are introduced are variations on already used terminology. Other new vocabulary reflects the author's personal associations to ideas that have been labelled and - 625 - This is a summary or excerpt from the full text of the book or article. The full text of the document is available to subscribers.

In The Shadow of the Object, Christopher Bollas integrates aspects of Freud's theory of unconscious thinking with elements from the British Object Relations School. In doing so, he offers radical new visions of the scope of psychoanalysis and expands our understanding of the creativity of the unconscious mind and the aesthetics of human character.?During our formative years, we are continually 'impressed' by the object world. Most of this experience will never be consciously thought, and but it resides within us as assumed knowledge. Bollas has termed this 'the unthought known', a phrase that has ramified through many realms of human exploration, including the worlds of letters, psychology and the arts. Aspects of the unthought known -the primary repressed unconscious -will emerge during a psychoanalysis, as a mood, the aesthetic of a dream, or in our relation to the self as other. Within the unique analytic relationship, it becomes possible, at least in part, to think the unthought - an experience that has enormous transformative potential.

Published here with a new preface by Christopher Bollas, The Shadow of the Object remains a classic of the psychoanalytic literature, written by a truly original thinker.