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Bion’s Vertices: On Truth and Lies

Editor : Tomasz Fortuna

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
About the editor and contributors
Series editor’s preface by Tomasz Fortuna
Foreword by Joseph Aguayo

Introduction by Tomasz Fortuna

Part I: Enquiry into the truth/lie domain

1. “The forms of things unknown”: Aesthetic processes in poetry and psychoanalytic thought
Margot Waddell

2. Knowledge and its pretenders: Bion’s contribution to knowledge and thought
David Bell

3. Representation and truth
R. D. Hinshelwood

4. Bion’s two principles of mental functioning
Robert Caper

5. A certain praise for lying
Roosevelt Cassorla

Part II: Change, growth, creativity, and their opposites

6. Chaos: Destruction or creation?
Ronald Britton

7. Reaching the ineffable: On emotion, intuition, and creativity in psychoanalytic encounter
Tomasz Fortuna

8. Catastrophic change: Container–contained, the shape of what we experience … and beyond
Denis Flynn

9. Bion Lies and perversion of truth
Dimitris J. Jackson

10. Thinking about truth, lies, and propaganda
Antònia Grimalt

Part III: Clinical conversations

11. “Truth shall spring out of the earth …”: The analyst as gatherer of sense impressions
Avner Bergstein

12. What might be in so close that as psychoanalysts we miss it?
Nicola Abel-Hirsch

13. The analyst’s state of mind and growth in the psychoanalytical process
Alberto Hahn

14. A story that could never be told: Transference and truth
Monica Horovitz

15. Truth and lies: The perversion of truth and the disruption of passion
Judy K. Eekhoff

16. The psychoanalyst’s toolbox: An apprentice in Bion’s and Meltzer’s ateliers
Carlos Tabbia

Afterword
Paulo Cesar Sandler

Index