Psychoanalysts finding form: (auto)fictional experiments in contemporary psychoanalysisLes psychanalystes trouvent la forme : expériences (auto)fictionnelles dans la psychanalyse contemporaine

Abstract

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 combine autobiography, essay, case study, fiction, comedy and poetry. In their theoretical work, Anzieu and Bollas have examined creativity and processes of thinking, predominantly from the perspective of object-relations psychoanalysis, although both are known as eclectic thinkers, who do not belong to just one school of psychoanalysis.