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Taming Wild Thoughts
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Taming Wild Thoughts brings together previously unpublished works from two different periods of the author's life which are linked, as the author says in her introduction, by the concept of classifying and conceptualizing thought. The first paper, "The Grid", dates from 1963 and is a discussion of great clarity about one of the author's most widely-used conceptual tools; it predates his more discursive paper of the same title (published in Two Papers) by several years. As a teaching paper on this topic, this version of "The Grid" is without parallel, and will doubtless be of great value to all students of his work. The second part of the book consists of transcripts of two tape-recordings made by Bion in 1977. They underline his interest in "wild" or "stray" thoughts; and they provide an insight into his extraordinary sensibility at the time of A Memoir of the Future.
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Index
Action, as used in Grid, 7, 10
Algebraic Calculus, as used in Grid, 7
Alpha:
-element(s), viii, xi, 29, 30
as used in Grid, x, 7, 8, 10, 11
function, 10
Archaic vestigial elements, x, 38, 44
Aristotle, 9
Attention, as used in Grid, 7, 10
function of [Freud], 9
Beatriz, R., 3
Beta-element(s), viii, xi, 30, 40
as 'box', x, 29, 36
as used in Grid, x, 7, 8, 10, 11
Bion in New York and Sao Paulo, 4
Bizarre objects, 11
'Box', beta-element as, x, 29, 36
Brazilian Lectures, 4
British Psycho-Analytical Society, vii, 3
Brouwer, L. E. J., 49
Cantor, G., 49
Categorization of statements, with Grid, 8
Charcot, J. B., 35
Circle, ix, xi, 18, 19, 20
Circular argument(s), x, 15, 18–20
failure of, 18
fruitful vs. sterile, 19
Classification, 5, 13, 14
of psychoanalytical objects, vii
Clough, A. H., 43
Cogitations, viii
Communication(s):
analysis of, 12, 13
artist's, 13
over centuries, 33, 42
difficulty of, 31–34, 48
mathematical, method of recording analogous to, 5, 6
modes of, 46
patient's, 47
rhythmical, x, 31
Concept, as used in Grid, 7
Conception, as used in Grid, 7, 17
Constant conjunction, 9, 10, 12, 16, 18, 19
and implication of significance, 9
Counter-transference, viii, 6
Curiosity, 40
Daniel, Book of, dreams in, 28
Definitory hypothesis, as used in Grid, 7, 9
Delusion, 41, 50
Denial, 46
Desire and memory, xi
importance of being rid of, 43–44
Dream(s), 30, 36
in Bible, 28
communication through, 34, 41
Freud on, 50
vs. hallucination, 50
significance of, 28, 29
-thoughts, as used in Grid, x, 7, 11
as used in Grid, 11
-work-alpha, viii
Edinburgh Conference, 18
Elements of Psycho...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- FOREWORD
- The Grid
- Untitled
- REFERENCES
- INDEX