The Vitality of Objects

PART ONE - ESSAYS FROM PSYCHOANALYSIS/Lost in Thought/The Receptive Unconscious/Idiom Intuition and Unconcious Intelligence/Thoughts on Some Aspects of the Writings of Christopher Bollas/Futures/Transformational Conservative and Terminal Objects/The Application of Bollas's Concepts to Practice/`Love Is Where It Finds You' /The Caprices of the `Aleatory Object'/PART TWO - ESSAYS FROM OTHER DISCIPLINES/Returns of the Repressed/Some New Applications of Psychoanalysis to Ethnography/Of Knowledge and Mothers /On the work of Christopher Bollas/The Poetics of Analysis/Klein Bollas and the Theory of the Text/`If My Mouth Could Marry a Hurt Like That!'/Reading Auto-Mutilation Auto-Biography in the Work of Christopher Bollas and Sylvia Plath/Painting Into a Corner/Representation as Shelter/Cracking Up the Audience /PART THREE - A CONVERSATION WITH CHRISTOPHER BOLLAS/Christopher Bollas Interviewed by Anthony Molino/Christopher Bollas Selected Bibliography