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A Beam of Intense Darkness
Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis
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eBook - ePub
A Beam of Intense Darkness
Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis
About this book
The author surveys Bion's publications and elaborates on his key contributions in depth while also critiquing them. The scope of this work is to synopsize, synthesize, and extend Bion's works in a reader-friendly manner. The book presents his legacy - his most important ideas for psychoanalysis. These ideas need to be known by the mental health profession at large. This work highlights and defines the broader and deeper implications of his works.It presents his ideas faithfully and also uses his ideas as "launching pads" for the author's conjectures about where his ideas point.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements and Sources of Information
- About the Author
- Prelude and prologue
- 1 An introduction
- 2 What kind of analyst was Bion?
- 3 What kind of person was Bion?
- 4 Bionās vision
- 5 Bionās legacy
- 6 Bionās metatheory
- 7 Bion on technique
- 8 Clinical vignette encompassing Bionās technical ideas
- 9 Bion, the mathematician, the mystic, the psychoanalyst
- 10 The āLanguage of Achievementā
- 11 Bionās discovery of O
- 12 The concept of the ātranscendent positionā
- 13 The quest for the truth, Part A: the ātruth driveā as the hidden order of Bionās metatheory for psychoanalysis
- 14 The quest for the truth, Part B: curiosity about the truth as the āseventh servantā
- 15 Lies, āliesā, and falsehoods
- 16 The container and the contained
- 17 āProjective transidentificationā: an extension of the concept of projective identification
- 18 Bionās work with groups
- 19 Bionās studies in psychosis
- 20 Transformations
- 21 Psychoanalytic functions and elements
- 22 Points, lines, and circles
- 23 The Grid
- 24 Fetal mental life and its caesura with postnatal mental life
- 25 What does it mean to dream? Bionās theory of dreaming
- 26 Dreaming, phantasying, and the ātruth instinctā
- 27 āBecomeā
- 28 P-S ā D
- 29 L, H, and K and passion
- 30 Faith
- 31 Bionās discovery of zero (āno-thingā)
- Epilogue
- W. R. Bion Bibliography
- References and Bibliography
- Index