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A Critical Companion to Bion: Functions of a Psychoanalytic Personality

Author(s) : Charles Levin

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Charles Levin believes that in today’s world our understanding of Bion bears an unknown relation to what Bion actually wrote. To understand Bion’s place in contemporary psychoanalysis, we must suspend our received understandings, which are sometimes idealized, and revisit his writings with an attitude of careful, intensive, and thoughtful attention to what he wrote and said... This book is a profoundly respectful and insightful work of scholarship. Donnel Stern, Ph.D., William Alanson White Institute

A Critical Companion to Bion is a very special book. In this bold and illuminating study, psychoanalyst Charles Levin undertakes a rare and incisive re-encounter with Bion—stripping away layers of idealization to reveal the complex, unsettling, and profoundly generative thinker behind the legend... Refusing shortcuts, simplifications, or sanitized retellings, the author leads us deep into the dense forest of Bion’s thought, guiding us toward a more truthful, demanding, and transformative engagement with one of psychoanalysis’s most radical and mythologized figures. Ofra Eshel

This book is an irreplaceable tool for anyone interested in Bion or psychoanalysis in general. In recent years, Bion’s name has become quite popular in the psychoanalytic world. But as with every author that comes into fashion, one can wonder how much of Bion was actually and properly read. The present book results from an exceptionally close reading of the essential works of the famous British analyst and it does him – and us – a service that is quite rare: it is a truly critical reading. It is a Companion that does not leave Bion unscathed but that enlivens the minds of its readers, be they "bionians" or otherwise. Prof. Dominique Scarfone, Montreal