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Bion's sources : the shaping of his paradigms / edited by Nuno Torres and R.D. Hinshelwood.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bion, Wilfred R. (Wilfred Ruprecht), 1897-1979--Criticism and interpretation.
- Bion, Wilfred R.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hove, East Sussex ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- There are an increasing number of publications concerned with the work of Wilfred Bion (1897-1979). Many have sought new ideas from his writing however, little attention has been paid to the intellectual context in which Bion wrote. Bion's Sources traces where Bion's new ideas came from, what job he required of them, how successfully he used his context and how that has fertilised psychoanalysis. Expert contributors provide chapters on areas of the intellectual context separate from or adjacent to clinical psychoanalysis in Britain which have clearly influenced the texts Bion
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Bion's Sources; Copyright Page; Contents; List of contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1.Introduction; 2.Gregariousness and the mind: Bion and Trotter, an update; 3.Intuition and ultimate reality in psychoanalysis: Bion'simplicit use of Bergson and Whitehead's notions; 4.The wider medical culture of Bion's bio-psycho-social framework; 5.The Tavistock years; 6. Bion's concept of the proto-mentaland modern panpsychism; 7. The psycho-socialfield dynamics: Kurt Lewin and Bion; 8.Bion's analysts; 9.Letters to John Rickman: transition 1939-1951
- 10.Freud's influence on Bion's thought: links and transformations11.Thoughts, thinking, and the thinker: Bion's philosophical encounterwith Kant; 12.Braithwaite and the philosophy of science; 13.Notation, invariants and mathematical models; 14.Investigating Bion's aesthetic turn: A Memoir of the Futureand the 1970s; 15.Conclusion: Bion's nomadic journey; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-77263-4
- 0-203-55606-2
- 1-299-31986-6
- 1-136-77256-1
- 9780203556061
- OCLC:
- 831117902
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