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1 online resource |
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New Library of Psychoanalysis Teaching |
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New Library of Psychoanalysis Teaching
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Reading Bion- Front Cover; Reading Bion; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of boxes; Acknowledgements; Introduction; How to read this book; Situating this book in the Bion literature; Some impressions of Bion as a person; Bion and Freud, Klein, Jung, Winnicott and Lacan; Philosophical background of Bion's psychoanalytic epistemology; Notes; W.R. Bion bibliography; Part 2 -- Chronological list; Part I: Before the caesura: transformations in knowledge; Chapter 1: Biography, 1897-1966; World War II; Chapter 2: Experiences in Groups and Other Papers (1961); Introduction |
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Bion's attitude in conducting groups: the group as study groupBasic assumptions; The protomental system and the basic assumptions; The work group; A psychoanalytic theory of groups and its ensuing technique; Conclusion; Note; Chapter 3: Papers on psychosis (1953-1960); Introduction; In contact with the psychotic mind; The Imaginary Twin; A theory of schizophrenia; On Arrogance; Attacks on Linking; 'A Theory of Thinking'; Conclusion; Note; Chapter 4: Learning from Experience (1962); Introduction; The fundamental question: how do we learn frome motional experiences?; Dream thought |
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Alpha-function as a factor of the contact-barrierThe failing of the contact-barrier in the psychotic part of the personality; Delineating some factors of the alpha-function; K: the processing of emotional experiences in psychoanalysis; Model, abstraction and theory; Selected fact; The psychoanalytic object; The notion of the psychoanalytic object put in a formula; Container and contained and proto-organizations; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5: Elements of Psychoanalysis (1963); Introduction; The essence of the book Elements; Bion's Grid of elements; The use of the Grid |
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Reconsidering the theory of thinking as the transition between elementsThe relation between the elements and the psychoanalytic object; Myths as fact-finding tools; Myths and the relation between pain, growth and knowledge; Feelings and the Grid; Negative growth; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 6: Transformations (1965); Visual metaphors of Transformations; Introduction to Transformations: the essence of the book; Focusing on transformation; Applying geometrical concepts to transformations; A new concept: the origin of transformations or O |
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Invariants in transformations and the psychoanalytic objectTransformations in K; Attitudes that close down the transformational process; Perception and naming of conjunctions; Infinite and finite modes of psychic functioning; A turning point in Bion's work: looking for direct contact with transformations in O; Defining O; Growth, truth and openness to O; Reconsidering former concepts in the light of Transformations in O; O and mysticism/language of achievement; Conclusion; Notes; Part II: After the caesura: transformations in O; Introduction; Note; Chapter 7: Biography, 1967-1979 |
| Summary |
Wilfred R. Bion is considereda ground-breaking psychoanalyst. His thinking is rooted in Freud and Klein from where it takes an original flight. Reading Bion shows the evolution of his seminal insights in psychic functioning and puts them in a wider context. Rudi Vermote integrates a chronological close reading and discussion of Bion's texts, with a comprehensive approach of his major concepts. The book is divided in two main parts: Transformation in Knowledge: Bion's odyssey to understand psychic processing or the mind Transformation in O: in whichBion reinterprets his former concepts from the dimension of the unknown and unknowable The running text is put against a background of biographical data and scientific, artistic and philosophical influences on his work, which are highlighted in boxes and separate chapters. Bion's concepts are important for anyone dealing with the mind. His ideas have an ongoing deep impact on psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and psychopathology. His concepts help to understand psychic change, creativity, individual psychodynamics and small and large-group phenomena. The discovery of their value for studies on art, literature, sociology, religion, economics has just begun. Reading Bion starts from the very beginning so that it is instructive for people who are new to his work, but the close reading and background information make ita meaningful companion for experienced psychoanalysts and psychotherapists studying his work |
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"Translated from the author's original Dutch by Anneleen Masschelein and Elisabeth Allison"--T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-265) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
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Bion, Wilfred R. (Wilfred Ruprecht), 1897-1979.
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Bion, Wilfred R. (Wilfred Ruprecht), 1897-1979. fast (OCoLC)fst00002691 |
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Psychoanalysts -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Psychoanalysis.
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Psychoanalysis
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Psychoanalytic Theory
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psychoanalysis.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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Psychoanalysts -- Biography.
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Psychoanalysis.
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Great Britain.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020693793 |
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9780429491986 |
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0429491980 |
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9780429959530 |
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0429959532 |
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9780429959523 |
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0429959524 |
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