Bion and being : passion and the creative mind / Annie Reiner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reiner, Annie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bion, Wilfred R. (Wilfred Ruprecht), 1897-1979.

Bion, Wilfred R.

Psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysts--Great Britain--Biography.

Psychoanalysts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With his concept of ""O,"" Wilfred Bion provided a new psychoanalytic space in which to explore the mind. Dr Annie Reiner's new book, Bion and Being: Passion and the Creative Mind, examines the similarities between this psychoanalytic space and the artist's creative sensibility, as well as mystical and religious states. This most mysterious and revolutionary of Bion's analytic ideas reflects what is essentially a state of being, an experience of mental integrity and union between emotional and rational functions of the mind which is the basis of thinking and creativity. In an effort to provi

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE "O": Bion's "truth instinct"; CHAPTER TWO Self and other: passion and play in analysis and art; CHAPTER THREE The development of language; CHAPTER FOUR "A rose is a rose is a rose . . .": the power and limits of language; CHAPTER FIVE "O": the spiritual aspect of being; CHAPTER SIX The language of being and mental wholeness; CHAPTER SEVEN Being and non-being: a clinical view; CHAPTER EIGHT Duality and the myth of Sisyphus: a clinical exploration; CHAPTER NINE Evolving states of wholeness and being

CHAPTER TEN Summary and conclusionsREFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-429-91144-0

0-429-47244-7

1-280-49519-7

9786613590428

1-84940-982-X

9780429472442

OCLC:

793166646