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A Critical Companion to Bion: Functions of a Psychoanalytic Personality

Author(s) : Charles Levin

Table of Contents

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. An Exploded View
25. Explosive Visuality
26. Non-Sensuous Realities: Part 1
27. The Reality Principle: A Metapsychological Detour
28. Non-Sensuous Realities: Part 2
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)