{"product_id":"being-a-character-psychoanalysis-and-self-experience-9780415088152","title":"Being a Character: Psychoanalysis and Self Experience","description":"\u003cp\u003eEach person invests many of the objects in his life with his or her own unconscious meaning  each person subsequently voyages through an environment that constantly evokes the selfs psychic history. Taking Freuds model of dreamwork as a model for all unconscious thinking  Christopher Bollas argues that we dreamwork ourselves into becoming who we are  and illustrates how the analyst and the patient use such unconscious processes to develop new psychic structures that the patient can use to alter his or her self experience. Building on this foundation  he goes on to describe some very special forms of self experience  including the tragic madness of women cutting themselves  the experience of a cruising homosexual in bars and bathes and the demented ferocity of the facist state of mind. An original interpreter of classical theory and clinical issues  in Being a Character Christopher Bollas takes the reader into the very texture of the psychoanalytic process.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666407710773,"sku":"ByrdShop_0415088151","price":103.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780415088152.jpg?v=1782431014","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/being-a-character-psychoanalysis-and-self-experience-9780415088152","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}