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This book is the result of a particular choice made by the Italian publishing company. It is, in fact, a revised edition - enriched and expanded by contributions from new authors - of the 2002 original anthology in English edited by Joseph Scalia and entitled: The Vitality of Objects: Exploring the Work of Christopher Bollas.
The editors of this edition are Scalia himself and two Italian psychoanalysts Anthony Molino and Lilia Baglioni. They have chosen to give other authors the opportunity to contribute to some central themes investigated by Bollas.
It will suffice to read the short bibliography written by the authors to realize that Bollas spread ideas, stimulated thoughts and created a dialogue among psychoanalysts belonging to scientific societies from different countries and among leading representatives from other fields such as architecture, anthropology and literature. Therefore this book can be read as if you are travelling alone in places that are in part familiar and pleasant to see again, but with the possibility of discovering new perspectives and exploring new paths.
The first part of the book, ‘Disseminations’, opens with Bollas's work entitled Architecture and the unconscious. It is a recent paper which was published in the International Forum of Psychoanalysis. The author leads the reader through the streets, the neighbourhoods, the parks or the shopping malls of cities such as Los Angeles or London, thus finding a series of interesting clues to the relationship between “the man-made and built-up environment and the world of psychoanalysis designed to study the unconscious mental life” (p. 21). The paper raises some questions about the relationship that exists between the environment according to Winnicott and the natural or man-made environment. Moreover it invites the reader to grasp the interconnections between psychic spaces and real life.
The article has connections with the one written by Adriano Cornoldi and Alessandra Chinaglia, Architecture and