Buch, Englisch, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Functions of a Psychoanalytic Personality
Buch, Englisch, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
ISBN: 978-1-041-17488-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
A Critical Companion to Bion is an introduction to the extraordinary contributions of W.R. Bion, providing a close detailed reading of his work, anchored in systematic critical expositions of the arguments in his four main theoretical studies (1962-1970).
The complex reality of Bion’s texts and public talks is studied in depth, placing them in sharp contrast to the phenomena of Bion’s subsequent influence. Building on this analysis, the book goes on to explore the reasons for the striking gap between what Bion said and what professional psychoanalysis tends to imagine he meant. The author argues that the psychoanalytic profession has cultivated the charismatic authority of Bion’s posthumous “psychoanalytic personality” in the service of both clinical innovation and conservative psychoanalytic identifications. A careful reading of the Bion opus provides essential insight into the history of psychoanalytic thought and the chronic institutional problems still facing the psychoanalytic movement.
With a careful, detailed analysis of Bion’s work and a clear vision of how it can be applied to theory and clinical work, this is key reading for all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists.
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Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Training
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1. Introduction: Putting a Stick in It Part 1 Learning from Experience (1962) 2. Bion’s Intellectual ‘Gait’: An Overview 3. Factor and Function 4. A Teleology of the Unknown 5. Alpha-Function: The Transducer 6. Beta Reality 7. Complications in the Theory of Alpha-Function 8. What is an ‘Emotional Experience’? Part 2. Elements of Psychoanalysis (1963) 9. Situating Bion’s Textual Practice 10. The Grid: 1 11. The Grid: 2 12. The Elements of Elements: The First Three Chapters 13. Essential Isolation 14. Commentaries on Chapters 5 through 16 15. A Negative Ontology Under Psychic Construction Part 3. Transformations (1965) 16. Transformation and the Invariant 17. The Advent of O 18. Improvisations on Categories of Transformation 19. Catastrophic change 20. Causality, Infancy, and Morality 21. Reason, Logic, and the Psychotic Mechanisms 22. The Travails of the Negative and the Slough of Minus K 23. An Ambivalent Geometry of Psychosis Part 4. Attention and Interpretation (1970) 24. Introduction 25. Explosive Visuality 26. Non-sensuous Realities: Part One 27. The Reality Principle: A Metapsychological Detour 28. Non-sensuous Realities: Part Two 29. The Evolution of Absolute Truth 30. Acts of Faith in the Dark Night of the Analytic Soul 31. Metanoia and the Group 32. The lie Part 5. Performances of Psychoanalysis 33. Some Reports on Bion as Analyst 34. Rarely Noted Features of Bion’s Clinical Stance 35. A Glimpse into the Brazil Seminars 36. Some Clinical Self-Descriptions 37. Bion’s Evasiveness 38. Bion’s Rigidity 39. A Weird Dream of a Weir 40. The Perils of Splendid Isolation Part 6. Transmissions of Psychoanalysis 41. Textual Gaps 42. Anxious Patterns of Influence 43. Psychoanalytic Extraterritoriality 44. ‘A Shadow which the Future Casts Before’ 45. The Bion Who Cannot Be Born(e)
