
Most of this experience will never be consciously thought, but it resides within us as assumed knowledge. During our formative years, we are continually "impressed" by the object world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. 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. Within the unique analytic relationship, it becomes possible, at least in part, to think the unthought - an experience that has enormous transformative potential. 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. 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. Most of this experience will never be consciously thought, and but it resides within us as assumed knowledge.


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. 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.
