A Beam of Intense Darkness: Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis (Routledge Mental Health Classic Editions)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Introduction To Classic Edition
Acknowledgements and Sources of Information
About the Author
Prelude and prologue
1 An Introduction
2 What Kind of Analyst was Bion?
3 What kind of Person was Bion?
4 Bion’s Vision
5 Bion’s Legacy
6 Bion’s Metatheory
7 Bion on Technique
8 Clinical Vignette Encompassing Bion’s Technical Ideas
9 Bion, the Mathematician, the Mystic, the Psychoanalyst
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 The Quest for the Truth, Part B: 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 Psychoanalytic Functions and Elements
22 Points, Lines, and Circles
23 The Grid
24 Fetal Mental life and its Caesura with Postnatal Mental Life
25 What does it Mean to Dream? Bion’s Theory of Dreaming
26 Dreaming, Phantasying, and the “Truth Instinct”
27 “Become”
28 P-S ↔ D
29 L, H, and K and Passion
30 Faith
31 Bion’s Discovery of Zero (“No-thing”)
Epilogue
W. R. Bion Bibliography
References and Bibliography
Index