A Beam of Intense Darkness: Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis

Author(s) : James Grotstein

A Beam of Intense Darkness: Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2023
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 390
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 97360
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032384764
  • ISBN 10 : 103238476X

Table of Contents


1. The Scope Of This Book
2. What Kind Of Analyst Was Bion?
3. What Kind Of Person Was Bion?
4. Bion's vision
5. Bion's Legacy
6. A Brief Summary Of Bion's Metatheory
7. Bion On Technique
8. Clinical Case Encompassing Bion's Technical Ideas
9. Bion, The Mathematician, Bion, The Mystic
10. The Language Of Achievement
11. Bion's Discovery Of O
12. The Concept Of The "Transcendent Position"
13. The "Quest For The Truth": Part A: The "Truth Drive" As The Hidden Order Of Bion's Metatheory For Psychoanalysis
14. Part B: "The Truth Drive" Curiosity About The Truth As The "Seventh Servant"
15. Lies, "Lies," And Falsehoods
16. The Container And The Contained
17. "Projective Transidentification": An Extension Of The Concept Of Projective Identification
18. Bion's Work With Groups
19. Bion's Studies In Psychosis
20. Transformations
21. Learning From Experience
22. The Breast, The "No-breast," And The Point
23. The Grid
24. The Question Of Fetal Mental Life And Its Caesura With Post-natal Mental Life
25. What Does It Mean To Dream?" A Preliminary Note On Bion's Theory Of Dreaming
26. "...perchance To Dream...": The Profounder Mission Of Dreaming
27. "Become"
28. P-s To DCHAPTER
29. L, H, And Passion
30. Faith
31. The Importance Of Bion's Discovery Of Zero ('No-thing")
32. A Pot Pourri Of Selected Contributions By Bion
33. A Reading Of Bion's A Memoir Of The Future
34. Epilogue For The Book

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