A beam of intense darkness : Wilfred Bion's legacy to psychoanalysis /
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| Author / Creator: | Grotstein, James S. |
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| Imprint: | London : Karnac Books, 2007. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 382 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11256639 |
| Summary: | The author surveys Bion's publications and elaborates on his key contributions in depth while also critiquing them. The scope of this work is to synopsize, synthesize, and extend Bion's works in a reader-friendly manner. The book presents his legacy - his most important ideas for psychoanalysis. These ideas need to be known by the mental health profession at large. This work highlights and defines the broader and deeper implications of his works.It presents his ideas faithfully and also uses his ideas as "launching pads" for the author's conjectures about where his ideas point. This includes such ideas as "the Language of Achievement", "reverie," "truth," "O," and "transformations"- in, of, and from it, but also " L," "H," and "K" linkages (to show how Bion rerouted Freud's instinctual drives to emotions), "container/contained, Bion's ideas on "dreaming," "becoming," "thoughts without a thinker," "the Grid," his erasure of the distinction between Freud's, "primary and secondary processes " and the "pleasure" and "reality principles," "reversible perspective," "shifting vertices," "binocular vision," "contact-barrier," the replacement of "consciousness" and "unconsciousness" with infinity and finiteness, Bion's use of models, his distinction between "mentalization" and "thinking," as well as many other items. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 382 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-359) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781849405737 1849405735 1283069377 9781283069373 9786613069375 661306937X 0429895976 9780429895975 0429471203 9780429471209 9781855754485 1855754487 |