Open AccessPSYCHOANALYSTS FINDING FORM : (auto)fictional experiments in contemporary psychoanalysis
Author(s) -
Anneleen Masschelein
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
relief
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1873-5045
DOI - 10.18352/relief.490
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , creativity , psychoanalysis , poetry , object (grammar) , biography , sociology , comedy , epistemology , literature , philosophy , psychology , art , linguistics , social psychology , visual arts
In this paper, we will look at two important voices in contemporary psychoanalysis, Didier Anzieu and Christopher Bollas, who from a theoretical perspective have tried to devise new genres to express their thinking. The result of this is hybrid texts that com-bine autobiography, essay, case study, fiction, comedy and poetry. In their theoretical work, Anzieu and Bollas have examined creativity and processes of thinking, predomi-nantly from the perspective of object-relations psychoanalysis, although both are known as eclectic thinkers, who do not belong to just one school of psychoanalysis.