A Beam of Intense Darkness
A Beam of Intense Darkness: Wilfred Bions Legacy to Psychoanalysis James S. Grotstein,
Publisher: Karnac Books
ISBN: 1855754487
DDC: 150
Edition: Paperback; 2007-10
Summary:
The scope of this work is to synopsize, synthesize, extend, and to
challenge Bion in a reader-friendly manner. Presenting the most
important legacy-ideas for psychoanalysisthe ideas that are on the
cutting edge of the field that need to be known by the mental health
profession at largeit highlights and defines the broader and deeper
implications of his works.A Beam of Intense Darkness presents Bions
ideas faithfully and also uses his ideas as launching pads for the
authors conjectures about where Bion's ideas point. This includes
such ideas as the Language of Achievement, reverie, truth, O, and
transformationsin, of, and from it, but also L, H, and K linkages (to
show how Bion rerouted Freuds instinctual drives to emotions),
container/contained", Bions ideas on dreaming, becoming, thoughts
without a thinker, the Grid, his erasure of the distinction between
Freuds, 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, Bions use of models,
his distinction between mentalization and thinking, as well as many
other items.
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