An introduction to W.R. Bion's 'a memoir of the future' : facts of matter or a matter of fact? / by P.C. Sandler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sandler, P. C. (Paulo Cesar), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Bion, Wilfred R.

Bion, Wilfred R. (Wilfred Ruprecht), 1897-1979. Memoir of the future.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2018].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the last years of his life Bion gathered unusual manuscripts handwritten in his tidy lettering that assumed the form of a trilogy. Finely typed and edited by his dedicated wife, they were named A Memoir of the Future. Many of the themes of this book were already evident in Transformations and Attention and Interpretation. These earlier books provide many of the theories whose practical counterpart finally found a form in the trilogy: as Bion himself noted, "the criteria for a psychoanalytic paper are that it should stimulate in the reader the emotional experience that the writer intends, that its power to stimulate should be durable, and that the emotional experience thus stimulated should be an accurate representation of the psychoanalytic experience that stimulated the writer in first place." In this second volume of a much needed introduction to Bion's last work, A Memoir of the Future, Paulo Cesar Sandler continues his detailed and insightful "prelude" to a work many readers have found "obscure, complicated and difficult".

Contents:

part PART I: LANDING …. OR DIVING? DIVING

chapter 1 The fumbling infancy: Paradise regained?

chapter 2 Love it or leave it: transformations and invariants again

chapter 3 Is there an object-alienated science?

chapter 4 The royal road

chapter 5 The numinous realm

chapter 6 Towards truth: glimpses of the numinous realm (“O”)

chapter 7 Obstacles to intuition

chapter 8 Mindlessness: the sensuous-concretisation syndrome

part PART II: TO SOUTHERN SHORES THE UNHEIMLICH

chapter 9 Mutual interchange

chapter 10 An attempt at a non-occlusive conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 13, 2015).

ISBN:

0-429-91075-4

0-429-89652-2

0-429-47175-0

1-78241-214-X

9780429471759

OCLC:

952638934