Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD

A PREFACE AND SOME "FROG" THOUGHTS
Giuseppe Civitarese

CHAPTER ONE
Introduction

CHAPTER TWO
From countertransference to Transformations

CHAPTER THREE
Bion's discovery of alpha function: the engine of transformations

CHAPTER FOUR
Bion's Transformations and clinical practice

CHAPTER FIVE
The analyst's receptivity: evolution of the concept and its clinical application

CHAPTER SIX
Ruptures in the analytic setting and disturbances in the transformational field of dreams

CHAPTER SEVEN
The unbearable glare of living: the Sublime, Bion's theory of "O" and J. M. W. Turner, "Painter of Light"

CHAPTER EIGHT
Three unconscious pathways to representing the analyst's experience: reverie, countertransference dreams and joke-work

CHAPTER NINE
Autistic transformations I: from ashes to ashes: the heroic struggle of an autistic boy trying to be born and stay alive

CHAPTER TEN
Autistic transformations II: the capacity to tell a joke: reflections from work with Asperger's children

CHAPTER ELEVEN
"Notes on memory and desire": implications for working through

CHAPTER TWELVE
Conclusion: on Freud's "The question of a Weltanschauung" -a world of perpetual transformation?