Bion’s Legacy in São Paulo

Theoretical Applications from the São Paulo Psychoanalytic Society (SBPSP)

Evelise de Souza Marra, Cecil José Rezze, Evelise Marra, Cecil Rezze, Evelise de Souza Marra, Cecil José Rezze

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9780367774752
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000539912
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This collection illuminates the legacy of Wilfred R. Bion in Brazil, illustrating Bion's continued influence on the work of the São Paulo Psychoanalytic Society (SBPSP), how Bionian ideas are applied in contemporary psychoanalysis, and how current practice has evolved over time.

Evelise de Souza Marra and Cecil José Rezze bring together theoretical and clinical approaches to provide a thorough perspective on Bionian work in Brazil. The book includes chapters by senior analysts, well-respected teachers and analytic clinicians in contemporary Brazilian psychoanalysis, each of which explores a topic central to Bion's formulations. With discussion of key themes including turbulence, emotional experience, transference, caesura and mental pain, this book demonstrates how Wilfred R. Bion's thought has been developed, transformed and applied in Brazil since his visits there in the 1970s.

Bion's Legacy in São Paulo will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training, particularly those looking to understand Bion's influence in more depth, and for anyone interested in the practice of psychoanalysis in Latin America.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• Introduction
• Preface to the first edition
• Preface to the second edition
• Acknowledgements
• 1. From learning from emotional experience to wild thoughts: Turbulence!
• 2. Me and the other in the analysis room
• 3. Contributions of Bion’s thought to the theory and techniques of contemporary psychoanalysis
• 4. ɑ‑Function: Catastrophic anxiety – panic – container with reverie
• 5. Learning from emotional experience and the Grid: Theory and practice
• 6. Emotion, non-emotion and analyst language
• 7. Clinical use of myths in psychoanalysis: Myth, psychoanalysis and psychic reality
• 8. Issues related to “cure,” “improvement,” “normality” and “abnormality”: Psychoanalysis and psychotherapies 1
• 9. ɑ‑function ↔ Psychoanalysis: An investigation process (on the quality of presence in analytical session models)
• 10. Transference–transformations
• 11. Complementarity and clinical practice
• 12. Empowered by failure – vicissitudes of Transformations
• 13. Interpretation: Limits and ruptures of a concept and a practice
• 14. The “squabble” (prise de bec) between Beckett and Bion: The “experimental” insight in the glaring darkness
• 15. Caesura and mental pain
• 16. Apprehending psychoanalysis with Bion
• 17. Extensions into the realm of minus
• 18. From transference and countertransference to emotional experience in Transformations
• Appendix: The Grid
• Index