An Introduction to W.R. Bion's 'A Memoir of the Future': Facts of Matter or a Matter of Fact?

An Introduction to W.R. Bion's 'A Memoir of the Future': Facts of Matter or a Matter of Fact?
ISBN-10
0429910754
ISBN-13
9780429910753
Category
Psychology
Pages
392
Language
English
Published
2018-05-15
Publisher
Routledge
Author
P.C. Sandler

Description

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".

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