A Lonesome Road: Essays on the Complexity of W.R. Bion's Work

Psychoanalysis owes some of its most profound and original moments to W.R. Bion. He took it to its limits, sometimes beyond them, establishing a dialogue with many disciplines of human thinking, such as mathematics, philosophy, literature, the arts and sciences in general. This dialogue generated provoking and innovating questions for psychoanalytical practice that modified the panorama of psychoanalytical technique forever.

This book compares such dialogue to a road that can be described as the transition in psychoanalysis from the Simple Object to the Complex Object.

It is a lonesome road which translates the main metaphysical question stated by the poem of Coleridge: the search for an unreachable truth as the centre of the psychoanalytical process.