Note: numbers preceded by n are chapter endnote numbers.
Abraham’ s le er to Freud (1909) 17, 18–19, 21; and analytic field 36–37; and communicative projective identification 29; daughter’s constipation in 18, 19, 29, 30, 35, 36; parents’ photograph in 18, 19, 30, 35, 36; self-analysis in 18; and shared unconscious phantasy 35
affect: and alpha function see alpha function; of analyst 22, 25; and art 123, 124; and autistic phenomena 156; centrality of 5; and disruptions in analytic frame 118, 120; and drives 64; and groups 59n12; of longing 6, 7–8, 10; and O see O; painful 38n4, 119–120, 141, 193–194; and representational
characters 195, 196; repressed/ unrepresented 10, 94, 143, 148, 194, 199; transformation of see transformations; unconsciously communicated see unconscious communication
affective holograms 195
agglutinated objects 106, 109, 121n4
alpha function 4, 9, 13, 37, 39–58, 62, 75, 85n11, 206, 210; and analyst’s receptivity 88, 93, 100, 101, 103; and analytic seing/frame 111–112, 114–115, 118, 120; and apparatus for thinking 55, 56, 57; and Bion’s marriage 40, 42–44, 49, 51, 55, 59n7, 9; and Bion’s use of symbols 55, 56; and Bion’s war experiences 40, 42, 47, 49, 50–51, 55, 58; and Constellation for Thinking schema 56, 57, 58; and container/contained see container/ contained; digestive model of
53–55; and dreaming 12, 44, 111, 118, 143, 195, 196; as engine of transformations 11, 57, 61, 69, 87, 111, 120, 205, 209; and mother-infant relationship 53–55, 56, 57, 60 n 21; and paranoid-schizoid/ depressive positions 56, 57; and psychotic patients/thinking 40, 42, 44, 51; and shared unconscious phantasy/TapO 71; and tolerated doubt 55, 56, 57, 58, 60n24
altruistic identification 101
American psychoanalysis 23, 30–31, 33, 84n5, 134, 205, 209
American Psychoanalytic Association 23, 31, 81
Amiens diary (Bion) 13, 40, 41, 44, 45–46, 50, 51–52, 55, 58; ending in mid-sentence of 42, 50; Sweeting’s injury in 48–49, 52
analyst: analysis of in training 20, 139–140; as authority figure 34; contemporary, qualities needed for 203–205; and emotional coldness 21–22; internal resistances in 21; intuition of 72, 83, 95, 96, 97, 100; personal growth of 20; receptivity of see receptivity of analyst; representations of unconscious of 14; subjectivity/“third ear” of 27, 30, 33–34; and surprise/shock 4, 7, 94, 95, 96, 97–98, 99; transformation experienced by 2, 14; and uncertainty/unknown 62, 65, 66, 67, 72, 104; and unconscious work 4, 5, 140; work ego of 23–24
analytic dyad 2, 63, 83, 123–124; and alpha function see alpha function; and analytic setting/ frame see analytic setting/ frame; and countertransference see countertransference; countertransference dreams; fertility of 36; and here-and-now 9–10; and O see O; and projection/ introjection 4–5; as reciprocal
relationship 33; and resistance of patient 13, 21, 72–73, 78–79, 85n15, 91, 92; and working through see working through, see also projective identification; spontaneous unconscious constructions
analytic field 4, 5, 9, 10, 13, 26, 75; development of theory of 34–35, 205; and intersubjectivity see intersubjectivity; and spontaneous unconscious constructions 141–142, 147; and waking dream thoughts 36–37
analytic process 3, 8–11, 124; and analytic seing see under analytic seing/frame; binocular view of 13, 212; as incessant process of transformation 106, 111
analytic session 6–8, 12, 63; approached without memory and desire 14, 37, 72, 82, 83, 98, 152, 200; as dream 36; emotion of 3, 6, 8; and Grid see Grid, the; here-and-now of see here-and-now of analytic session; interactional patterns in 214–216; metamorphosis of affect in 2, 5; and O see O; pace of/progress in 190–191; patient’s resistance in 13, 21, 72–73, 78–79, 85n15, 91, 92; phenomenology of 67; shared/ interactive dreaming in 10–11; “snapshot” aspect of 2; as without agenda/unique event 7, 63; and working through see working through, see also spontaneous unconscious constructions
analytic setting/frame 11, 13, 105–121, 124, 210–211; and alpha functions 111–112, 114–115, 118, 120; ambiguity of term 106; and analyst’s “person”/mental functioning 110–112; and analytic process 105–106, 109, 112–114, 117–118, 120–121; as bastion 113; in clinical example 114–120;
disturbances in 106, 111–112, 113, 114, 115–117, 118, 120–121; and Green’s fundamental rule 110, 118; and intersubjectivity 106, 109, 111–113, 115, 118, 120, 121; and maternal associations 107, 109, 110; “nonhuman” aspects of 107–108; object relational aspects of 107, 109–110; and “phantom world” 106, 108, 109, 111, 211; and projective identification 108, 112, 115, 116
analytic third see intersubjective analytic third
Andrew (Asperger’s patient) 180–187; and discursive/proto-symbols 181–182; and father/third position 180, 185–186, 187; and fear of disappearing 181, 183–184, 185; jokes told by 184–186; lack of empathy of 181; and metaphors/puns 182, 183, 186, 187; and mindfulness 186; and miscarriages/egg story 180, 185; and mother 180, 185, 186, 187; and need to control environment 180–181; and play therapy 182–183; and symbolic thinking/ understanding jokes 182–184, 185, 186, 187
Angel Standing in the Sun, The (Turner) 129, 130
anxiety 22, 65, 66, 88–89, 156; and disruption to analytic frame 112; of dissolving/falling out of oneself 109; persecutory 163, 163–164, 165, 166, 167, 167–168, 169; separation 191–192
apparatus for thinking 55, 56, 57, 83, 196
Argentinean psychoanalysis 26, 152
Aristotle 44
Asperger’s children 14, 156–157, 160; and empathy 156, 171, 178, 179, 180; and Grid 77; and jokes
see joke-work with Asperger’s children; and representations 181, 182–183
associations 2, 18, 19; and analytic dyad 3
astronomy 127
atomic bomb 137
attention, evenly suspended/free floating 21, 90, 93, 96, 97, 98, 103, 110
Attention and Interpretation (Bion) 54, 82–84, 128
autism, psychogenic 157–169; and analyst’s approach 159; and autistic objects 158–159; case study see Sean; and loss/mourning 158, 159, 160, 167; and parental neglect 157, 158, 161; and psychic development 158
Autistic Spectrum Disorder see Asperger’s patient
autistic transformation 159–160, 216, 218; and dysdimentionalized experience 155–156, 160
Bailey, A. 129, 130, 131, 134, 135, 138n16
Balint, Michael 20, 23, 24, 25
Baranger, Willy/Baranger, Madeleine 35, 71, 113, 141, 205
basic assumptions 34–35, 71, 141
bastion 113
behavioral therapy 160
Benton, M. 157
Berlin Psychoanalytic Polyclinic 20
Bianchedi, Elizabeth 61
Bick, E. 48
Bion, Francesca 13, 40, 41, 42–44, 49, 50, 55, 59n7, 9, 76, 85n9
Bion, Wilfred 2–3, 5, 204, 213, 217; and alpha function see alpha function; on analyst’s receptivity 87, 88, 98–103, 104, 208; and analytic field 34–35, 205; on analytic session 7, 63, 101, 190–191, 200, 209–210; and catastrophic change 63, 81, 128, 198; and container/contained see container/ contained; and death of first wife/ fatherhood 43; dream theory of see dreaming, Bion’s theory of; emigration to US 63, 80, 81; on emotional thoughts 143, 153; on Freud’s dream theory 5–6, 12, 13, 36, 190; on groups 34–35, 71, 141; on interpretation in analysis 73–75, 151; on intuition 83; and Klein 43, 59n7; marriage to Francesca 40, 42–44, 49, 51, 55, 59 n 7, 9; mystical turn of see religion/mysticism; on projective identification 12, 28–29; and psychotic thinking 13, 28, 42, 44, 108; and Reik 98; on reverie 12, 15 n 1, 29; on schizophrenia 40, 42, 44, 50, 52, 53, 55; and split-off parts of self 42; theory of thinking 40, 53; transformations theory of 2, 10, 37; use of symbols by 55, 56, 65, 68–69; and working through 42, 51, 191, 194, 195, 196, 200
Bion’s war experiences 13, 40, 41–43, 44–47, 48–49, 58n2, 62; and container/contained 51–52, 99; and discovery of alpha function 40, 42, 47, 49, 50–51, 55, 58, see also Amiens diary
Black Widow (movie) 7
Bleandonu, G. 43
Bleger, J. 11, 13, 106, 211, see also “Psycho-Analysis of the Psycho-Analytic Frame”
Booth, Sophia 131
Boston Change Process Study Group 198–200
Brenman Pick, I. B. 25, 38n5, 153
Brown, L. J. 12, 38n3, 4, 42, 48, 91, 101, 154n4, 188n10, 205, 207; on alpha function 11, 60n20, 111; on constant unconscious communication 199; on countertransference dreams 79, 149; on jokes 141, 173; on mutual dreaming 10; on unconscious as instrument of analysis 38n3, 90
Burke, Edmund 125, 127, 129, 137, 137n3
Burning of the Houses of Parliament, The (Turner) 132, 133
Byron, Lord 133
Caper, R. 80
Cassorla, R. 10, 11, 106, 111, 112, 113, 205
catastrophic change 63, 81, 128
“Catastrophic Change” (Bion) 62–63, 80
Cave, Dick 175
censor 12
Chasseguet-Smirgel, J. 176
Civitarese, Giuseppe 35, 36–37, 74–75, 128, 138n4, 143, 205
climate change 3
co-creation of meaning 34, 35–36, 37, see also intersubjectivity
Cogitations (Bion) 40, 42, 44, 45–46, 50, 59n5
concordant/complementary identifications 26–27
concrete thinking 109, 118, 119, 171, 173, 187
condensation 142–144, 146, 173, 206
Constellation for Thinking schema 56, 57, 58
construction 141, 196–197, see also spontaneous unconscious constructions
container/contained 42–43, 49–50, 51–53, 56, 57, 59n13, 69, 82–84; and
analyst’s receptivity 99–100, 103; Bion’s use of symbols in 55, 56; and Bion’s war experiences 51–52, 99; and intersubjectivity 54–55; and mother–infant relationship 99–100; and O 83; and procreative/ reproductive model 54; and psychosis 52, 108
counterresistance 21
countertransference 4, 9, 13, 17–37, 63, 91, 153; and Abraham’s le er see Abraham’s le er to Freud; and analyst’s internal resistances 21; and analyst’s receptivity 91–92, 93, 96, 208–209; and analytic hour as dream 36; and concordant/ complementary identifications 26–27; dreams 14, 36, 79; effect on patient of 21, 23, 26–27, 33; and enactments/“two-person” psychology 29–34; evolution from hindrance to useful tool of 18, 19, 21, 23, 30; Freud/early analysts on 13, 17–18, 19, 20–23, 28, 37–38n2; as instrument of analysis 23–29, 30–31; and intersubjectivity/ analytic field 34–36; and Kleinian school/projective identification 24–27; modifying role of 29; neurosis 27; and reverie 29–30, 36; and role responsiveness 32; and self-analysis 18; and subjectivity of analyst 27, 30, 33–34; “totalistic” approach to 31; and work ego 23–24
countertransference dreams 14, 36, 79, 140, 141, 149–151, 208; and autistic patient 164, 166; condensation in 142–144, 147–148; and reveries/ jokes, compared 151–152; and working through 145
da Rocha Barros, E. L. 150, 181, 194
da Rocha Barros, E. M. 150, 153, 181, 194–195, 196, 197, 198, 201n4
Danby, Sarah 131
D’Arcy Wood, G. 133
day residue see preconscious thought/ day residue
Death on a Pale Horse (Turner) 131–132
defences 7–8, 22, 91, 95, 158; autistic 180; manic 185; and process monitoring 9; and psychosis 58, 168
depressive position 54, 56, 57, 109, 177
“Development of schizophrenic thought” (Bion) 52
displacement 140, 173, 174, 195
dream-work 4, 12, 45, 51, 111, 140, 173, 195; condensation in 142–143, 146, 173; constant waking dreaming in 12, 44, 111; disguise in 44, 46; inoperative/failure of 45–46; and symbolic forms 181, 195
dream-work-α 46, see also alpha function
dreaming/dreams 4, 5–6, 89, 205, 216–217; and analyst’s receptivity 89, 92–93, 97, 102–103, 204; countertransference see countertransference dreams; mutual intersubjective see under intersubjectivity; and psychosis/ trauma 45, 47, 48, 58–59 n 4; and symbolism 181–182; and telepathy 93; and trauma 10, 15n6, 58–59n4; unknown in 2–3, 67, 104
dreaming, Bion’s theory of 6, 10, 36, 42, 55, 181, 205; and alpha function 42, 44, 45–46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 55, 56, 57, 143; and analytic seing 111, 209–210; constant waking dreaming in 12, 44, 111; and Freud’s theory see under dreaming, Freud’s theory of; introjection in 49; and reality principle 44, 57; and trauma 45, 47, 48, 58–59n4
“dreaming couple” 143
dreaming, Freud’s theory of 2, 5–6, 10, 15n6, 51, 92–93; Bion’s elaboration
of 12, 13, 36, 44, 45, 46, 50, 57, 62, 209; condensation in 142–143, 147–148; and preconscious thought/unconscious wish 140, 141, 144; and wish-fulfillment/ pleasure principle 44, 45, 46, 92, see also dream-work
dreaming into existence 101, 105, 149, 192
dreams, field of see analytic seing/ frame
dual consciousness 213–214, 218
dysdimentionalized experience 155–156
Eckhart, Meister 80
Edward (clinical example of working through) 191–198, 200; and anxiety over reading 192–193, 194; and infantile neurosis 194; and intersubjectivity 197–198; and separation anxiety 191–192, 194, 197; and terror over computer crashing 191, 194; and thresholds 192, 194; and transformation of unrepresented affects 194; and tyrant/Philosopher King 193, 195, 196, 197, 198
ego psychology 9, 22–23, 24, 209
Eitington, Max 20
Elements of Psychoanalysis (Bion) 13, 56, 62, 80
Eliot, T. S. 82
Elkins, J. 136
emotion see affect
emotional growth 40, 63, 67, 74, 76; mutual 55, 57
emotional truth 40, 58, 67, 72, 104, 193; Ultimate 136
empathy 46, 59n7; of analyst 24, 118, 150, 182; and Asperger’s children 156, 171, 178, 179, 180
European psychoanalysis 23, 81
extinction events 157, 166–167
fantasy 22, 27, 32, 157; shared 36, 96, 97, 205, see also phantasy
fees for analytic sessions 11, 106, 108, 113
Ferenczi, S. 12, 20, 22, 25, 47, 48
Ferro, Antonino 10, 35, 36–37, 53, 61, 143, 153, 187; on past theories 212–213, 214; on transformational receptiveness 37, 101; on transformations 62, 74–75, 205
Field of Dreams (movie) 105, 106
field theory see analytic field
Fighting Temeraire, The (Turner) 133–134, 135, 138 n 14
flat world 3, 14, 156, 160, 203, 218
free association 2, 3, 21, 22, 85n14, 90, 209, 210
Freud, Anna 196
Freud, Sigmund 2, 11, 37, 47, 64, 204, 210, 211; on analyst’s dispassionate stance 21–22, 91; on analyst’s receptivity 13, 87, 88, 90–94, 96, 103, 104, 152; on analyst’s unconscious memory 87, 90, 92, 100, 103, 152, 189, 190; on analytic session 7, 85n14, 107, 109; on countertransference 13, 17–18, 19, 20–23, 28, 37–38n2; on dreaming see dreaming, Freud’s theory of; and dual consciousness 213–214, 218; evolution of psychoanalytic theory of 22–23; on intuition 206; on jokes/joke-work 140–141, 146, 147, 151, 171, 172–173, 174–175, 177, 188n3; on Nachtraglichkeit 9, 10, 118,
124, 195; and Reik 94, 96, 97; on Reizschutz 48; on repetition/acting out 189–190; on transference 9, 68, 189–190; on unconscious 12, 87, 90, 92–93, 95, 100, 213–214; on unknown in dreams 2–3, 67, 104; on Weltanschauung 14; on working through 152, 189, 194, 196
Friedman, Thomas 3
Fromm, M. G. 118
Galen 207
Gerzi, S. 48
globalization 3
Glover, E. 21
Godhead 80
Goethe, J. 135
Green, Andre 11, 15n4, 7, 106, 110, 111, 117, 118, 217
Grid, the 75–79; Bion’s loss of confidence in 77; Column 2 78–79; columns 78; and evolution of ideas/K 76; horizontal axis 77–78; placement of statements in 78; vertical axis 77
“Grid, The” (Bion) 62, 66, 76, 77
Grotjahn, M. 95
Grotstein, James 8–9, 36, 60n21, 67, 101, 110, 143, 155, 158, 212
group processes 34–35, 59n12, 71, 141, 205
Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps (Turner) 128
here-and-now of the session 3, 37, 112, 152, 190; and analyst’s receptivity 98–99, 103; and transformations of affects 9–10, 12, 103, 118, 151, 195, 212; and unconscious
communication 74; and working through 14, 190, 198, 199, 200
Hinshelwood, T. 40
Hitler, Adolf 146, 147, 151, 156
holding environment 109
Holocaust 146
Hubble telescope 127
identifications, concordant/ complementary 26–27
infant development 53–54, 107; and laughter 174–175; and skin envelope 158, see also mother– infant relationship
infantile neurosis 9, 19, 21, 92, 194, 196, 216
instinct see drive theory
internal object 32, 48, see also projection; projective identification
internet 3
interpretation in analysis 73–75, 151–152
Interpretation of Dreams, The (Freud) 140, 142, 154n1, 2, 3
intersubjective analytic third 5, 10, 35, 71–72, 111, 113, 144
intersubjectivity 3, 4, 9, 12, 13, 36, 38n 3, 74, 91, 200, 212; and container/ contained 54–55; and field theory see field theory; and group processes 34–35; and mutual dreaming 10–11, 106, 111–112, 118, 120, 121; and receptivity of analyst 87–88; and spontaneous unconscious constructions 144, 147; and transformation of O 71, 83; and working through 197–198, 199, 200, see also unconscious communication; and see under analytic setting/frame
Interview with the Vampire (movie) 6, 7, 8, 10, 11
introjection 4–5, 12, 28, 199; and dreaming 49
intuition 72, 75, 83, 206, 209; Reik on 95, 96, 97, 100
joke envelope 176, 179, 188 n 7
joke-work/jokes 4, 14, 139–141, 150–151, 200, 208, 210; about Kleinians/Freudians 208; clinical example of 146–147; condensation in 143–144, 146, 153, 173; Freud on 140–141, 146, 147, 151, 171, 172–173, 174–175, 177, 188n3; language aspect of 174, 177, 178, 188n3; and laughter 174–176; and object relations 173–178; and preconscious thought 140–141, 147, 173; puns 182, 183, 187; and reveries/dreams 151–152, 172, 177; and selected facts 141; and symbol formation/representation 173, 174, 177; as three-person event 177, 178; and timing 176–177; and working through 145
joke-work with Asperger’s children 155, 156, 171–172, 178–187; clinical example of see Andrew; and concrete thinking 171, 178, 187; and empathy 171, 178, 179, 180; impairment of 178–180; and metaphors 171, 172, 178, 183, 186; and separation from mother’s body 178–179; and symbolic thinking/empathy 171, 178, 179, 180
Jones, Ernest 47
Joseph, Betty 9, 26, 27, 38n5, 192
Jung, Carl 204
Kahn, M. 96
Kant, Immanuel 66, 80, 125, 126, 127, 137n3, 210
Kapp, F. T. 30
Kernberg, O. 31
Khan, M. 48
Klein, Melanie 9, 11, 28, 34, 109; and Bion 43, 59n7, 64, 84n7, 85n8, 99; and projective identification 12, 24–25, 68, 99; and unconscious phantasy 68, 71, 205
Kleinian school 4, 38n5, 208; and projective identification 25–27, see also Bion, Wilfred
Krauss, Laurence 104
landscape painting 128, 133, see also Turner, J. M. W.
Langer, S. 181
laughter, origins of 173–174, 178
Learning from Experience (Bion) 13, 42, 50, 51, 53–54, 56, 62, 63, 69; and K link 72
Lieberman, David 152
Light and Color (Turner) 135–136
light, Turner and 14, 124, 128–137; and Fighting Temeraire, The 133–134; and fire 132, 133; and Goethe’s treatise 135; and Italy 132; and loss/separation 129–130, 131–132, 135–136; and Mount Tambora explosion 133; and Rail, Steam and Speed 135; and religion 136–137; and Shade and Darkness / Light and Color 135–136; technique for studying 128
Llewellyn, N. 132
Lombardi, Riccardo 217
Los Angeles (US) 63, 80, 84n1, 5
loss 88–89, 91, 93, 115, 119, 124; and autism 158, 159
Lucy (human progenitor) 208
“Making the best of a bad job” (Bion) 41
Margate (Kent) 130
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia 120
Mawson, C. 66
Meltzer, D. 101, 141, 158, 177
memory 4, 14; and dream-work 44; repressed 92, 93–94, 95, 97, 98, 153, 189; unconscious, of analyst 87, 90, 92, 100, 103, 152, 189, 190
Milton, John 82
Mitchell, S. 34
Modell, A. 31
mother 49, 216; First Clown 175–176, 187
mother–infant relationship 53–55, 56, 57, 60n21, 62, 107, 168; and analytic dyad 83–84; and Asperger’s children 178–180; and container/contained 99–100; and origins of jokes/laughter 174–178
Mt Vesuvius in Eruption (Turner) 125, 126, 133
mysticism see religion/mysticism
Nachtraglichkeit 9, 10, 118, 124, 195, 212
narcissistic disorders 31
neuroses/neurotic patients 24–25, 107, 109, see alsotransference neurosis; war neuroses
Nietzsche, Friedrich 96
non-dreams-for-two 112, 113, 115, 120–121
nonexistance, fear of 164, 166–167, 168
“Notes on Memory and Desire” (Bion) 62–63, 66, 80, 152, 190
O (Bion’s theory) 14, 66–67, 103, 104, 124, 208, 210, 214; of analyst/ patient (Oa/Op) 70, 74; and container/contained 83; and invariants 66; mystical/religious aspects of 79–80, 82; national 138 n 14; shared seeTapO; and Sublime 127–128; transformations in 68–69, 70–75, 127, 166
object relations 32, 48, 53, 117; and analytic seing/frame 107, 109–110; and joke-telling 173–178
Ogden, T. 101, 112, 141–142, 146, 168, 179, 192, 218; on countertransference dreams 35, 149, 153; and intersubjective analytic third 35, 71, 111, 144; on reverie/dreaming 10, 36, 101, 106, 118–119, 205; on unconscious psychological work 4, 8
“On arrogance” (Bion) 49, 52, 62
O’Shaughnessy, Edna 61, 66, 79, 85n16
Pantheon, the Morning a er the Fire, The (Turner) 132, 133
paranoid-schizoid position 56, 57, 109, 163, 167
peanut allergy 66
Pfeffer, P. 135
phantasy 4, 36, 38n4, 5, 68, 199, 205, 216; and dreaming 45; shared 10, 34–35, 36, 71–72, 142, 144, see also fantasy
“phantom world” 106, 108, 109, 111, 211
play therapy 160, 162–163, 182–183, 187
“Poor Pitiful Me” (song) 89, 92, 93, 97, 102
Pope of Greenwich Village, The (movie) 148, 149, 152
preconscious thought/day residue 8, 140–141, 142, 143, 150–151, 173
predators, fear of 163–164, 166, 167, 169, 169n3
process monitoring 9
Prodger, M. 136
projection 4–5, 12, 24, 38n4, 49, 199, 216; transformation of see alpha function
projective counteridentification 27, 101
projective identification 24–29, 36, 68, 182; and analyst’s receptivity 99,
102; and analytic seing/frame 108, 112, 115, 116; Bion on 12, 28–29, 52, 53, 99; communicative 28–29; Klein on 12, 24–25; and sojourn in analyst’s psyche 29, 49, 52, 53, 62; and unconscious communication 99; violent 28
projective transformations 68, 75, 215, 216
“Psycho-Analysis of the Psycho-Analytic Frame” (Bleger) 105–106, 119–120; agglutinated objects in 106, 109, 121n4; ambiguities in 106; and analyst’s “person”/ mental functioning 110, 111; immobilization in 108, 121n6; and “nonhuman” aspects of frame 107–108; and object relational aspects of frame 107, 109; “phantom world” in 106, 108, 109, 111, 211; seing–process relationship in 112–114, 115, 120
psychoanalysis, contemporary 203–207, see also Weltanschauung
psychoanalysis, development of 22–23, 117
“psycho-analytic study of thinking, The” (Bion) 53
psychogenic autism see autism, psychogenic
psychotic part of personality 42, 59n, 60n17, 108, 159
psychotic patients/thinking 24, 28, 107; and Bion 13, 28, 40, 42, 44, 51, 52, 55; as defence organization 168; and trauma 58–59n4
Racker, Heinrich 15n3, 26–27, 32
Rail, Steam and Speed (Turner) 135
receptivity of analyst 7, 13, 37, 83, 87–104, 122n8, 124, 152; and alpha function 88, 93, 100, 101, 103; and altruistic identification 101; Bion on 87, 88, 98–103, 104; and caesura in session 102;
clinical example of 88–89; and container/contained 99–100, 103; and countertransference 91–92, 93, 96, 208–209; and evenly suspended/free floating a ention 90, 93, 96–97, 98, 103, 110; and free association 2, 3, 21, 22, 85n14, 90; Freud on 87, 88, 90–94, 99, 100, 103, 104; and here-and-now 98–99, 103; and intuition see intuition; as part of intersubjective network 87–88; and projective identification 99, 102; Reik on 87, 88, 94–98, 103, 104; and repressed memory 92, 93–94; and resistance of patient 91, 92; and reverie/ dreams 89, 92–93, 97, 101, 102–103; and speculative imagination 100, 101, 103; and surprise/shock 94, 95, 96, 97–98, 99; unconscious aspects of 88, 91, 92–96, 97–98, 99; and unconscious memory 87, 90, 92, 100, 103, 152, 189, 190
receptivity, transformational 37, 101
Reeder, Jurgen 81
Reichhold, J. 2
Reik, Theodor 4, 15n2, 21, 30, 204; on intuition 95, 96, 97, 100; on receptivity of analyst 13, 87, 88, 94–98, 100, 103, 104, 209
Reizschutz 48
religion/mysticism 79–82, 84, 206, 207; and art 127, 136–137; and Establishment 81–82; and O 79–80, 82
reverie 4, 5, 7, 8, 69, 89, 118–119, 141, 150–151, 204, 208; and alpha function 12, 53–55, 56, 57; and analyst’s receptivity 89, 92–93, 97, 101, 102–103; condensation in 143–144, 147–148, 153; and countertransference dreams/ jokes, compared 151–152; and countertransference/projective identification 29–30, 36; Interview
with the Vampire 6, 7, 8, 10, 11; of mother–infant 53–55, 99, 143; and preconscious thought 147, 148; and psychotic part of personality 57, 58n4, 60n17; “sublime” 6, 8, 10, 11; and working through 145
rigid motion transformations 68, 75, 215, 216
role responsiveness see enactments
Romanticism 125, 128, 133, 136, see also Turner, J. M. W.
Ronstadt, Linda 89, 92, 93, 97, 102
Ross, W. D. 30
Ruskin, E. 129
Ruskin, John 135
Ruysbroeck, Blessed John 80
sadism 145, 146, 149, 150, 156
Sandler, Joseph 31, 33, 44, 54, 59 n 5, 110
Schafer, R. 24
schizo-affective disorder 161, 167
schizophrenia 40, 42, 44, 50, 52, 53, 55
Schrope, M. 207
Sean (autistic patient) 157–158, 160–169; and analyst’s nightmare 164, 166, 167, 204; and autistic protection 167; and behavioral therapy 158, 160, 161; and fear of fire 164–165, 166; and fear of nonexistance 164, 166–167, 168, 169; and fear of predators 163–164, 165, 166, 167, 169; and grandparents 160–161, 162, 167; and hard objects 161, 167; and mourning 167; and paranoid-schizoid anxieties 163; and parental neglect 157, 161, 163, 166; and play therapy 160, 162–163, 164–166, 167; vestiges of autism in 161–162, 163, 167
Searles, H 107
self, sense of 158
Shade and Darkness (Turner) 135–136
shell shock see war neuroses
Simmel, Ernst 47
Sinason, V. 177
Slave Ship (Turner) 134–135, 138n16
somatic transformations 215–216, 217
South American psychoanalysis 17, 23, 26, 71, 81, 106, 152, 205
speculative imagination 100, 101, 103, 206
Spillius, E. 25
spontaneous unconscious constructions 139–153; and analytic field 141–142, 146; clinical example of 145–150; components/ formatory process of 141, 150; condensation in 142–144, 146, 147–148, 153; construction in 141; differences in 151; and intersubjectivity/shared phantasy 144; and preconscious thought 140–141; and self-analysis 144–145; and working through 145, 152, 153, see also countertransference dreams;joke-work/jokes; reverie
Stein, Martin 31
Sterba, R. 90
subjectivity, disciplined 204
Sublime 125–128, 138n10; and Beautiful 126; and O 127–128; and Turner 125, 129, 132, 135, 136, 137
sublime, reverie of 6, 8, 10, 11
Sweeting (Bion’s runner) 48–49
symbol formation 173, 174, 177, 195
symbols/symbolism 5, 195, 196; discursive 181–182; presentational 181, 182–184
Szykierski, D. 41–42, 50, 51–52
T (process of transformation) 68–69
Tα (inception of transformation process) 68
T β (end product of transformation process) 68
Ta (transformation in analyst) 70
Taα (transformation process in analyst) 69
Taβ elements 53–54, 62 (end product of transformation in analyst) 69, 70, 73, 74, 75, 82
Tambora, Mount (Indonesia) 133
TapO (shared O of session) 70–75; as crucial for understanding treatment 70; and interpretation 73–75; and K link 72, 74; origin of idea of 71; and resistance to transform 72–73; and shared unconscious phantasy/ intersubjective third 71–72; as unknown essence 70, 72
telepathy 93
“The psycho-analytic study of thinking” (Bion) 53
thing-in-itself 66, 80, 125, 127, 210
thinking, Bion’s theory of 40, 53
third position 177, 178, 179, 186, 187
third presence 35, 72, see also intersubjective analytic third
Titanic 181
tolerated doubt 55, 56, 57, 58, 60n24, 65, 69
Tp (transformation in patient) 70, 74
Tpα (transformation process in patient) 68–69
Tpβ (end product of transformation in patient) 69, 71, 73, 75
transference 25, 27, 31, 32, 36, 63; analyst’s reaction to see
countertransference; and analyst’s receptivity 91, 93; and here-and-now 9; infantile 9, 18
transference neurosis 68, 84n6, 152, 189–190, 194
transformational receptiveness 37, 101
transformations: and alpha function see alpha function; and analytic dyad see analytic dyad; autistic see autistic transformation; categories of 68–69, 156, 215–218; and countertransference see countertransference; countertransference dreams; defined 1–2; dreams as see dreaming/dreams; in hallucinosis 68, 75; and here-and-now 9–10, 12, 37, 103, 118, 151, 195, 212; jokes as see joke-work/jokes; and learning 11–14; in O 68–69, 73, 127, 166; as processes 62, 63–64, 68–69; projective 68, 215, 216; and representation 3, 181, 182–183; reverie as see reverie; rigid motion 68, 75, 215, 216; and sojourn in analyst’s psyche 29, 49, 52, 53, 62; somatic 215–216, 217; speed of 4
Transformations (Bion) 13, 61–85, 210; and analytic session 63, 64, 67; causation/constant conjunction in 64–65; continuity with other writings of 62–63, 69; critical reactions to 61; Grid in see Grid, the; interpretation in 73–74; invariants in 65–66; mystical turn in see religion/mysticism; and O see O; and observation 64–65; psychoanalytic theories ignored in 64; and Romanticism 128; theory of transformations in 62, 63–64; transformations as processes in 62, 63–64, 68–69; types of transformations in 68–69; and unconscious made conscious 64; unsaturated concepts in 65
trauma 40–41, 42–43, 48–49, 55, 178; and analytic setting 113; and
containment 51–52; and dreaming 10, 15n6, 58–59n4; and Grid 77; and split-off parts of self 42
tropisms 158
truth see O
truth drive 67
Turner, J. M. W. 8, 14, 124–137; Angel Standing in the Sun, The 129, 130; Burning of the Houses of Parliament, The 132, 133; Chichester Canal 133; Death on a Pale Horse 131–132; drawing of Margate 130; experimentalism of 134, 135; Fighting Temeraire, The 133–134, 135, 138 n 14; Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps 128; and light see light, and Turner; and loss/separation 124, 129–130, 131–132, 133, 134; and love/ relationships 130–131; Mt Vesuvius in Eruption 125, 126, 133; Pantheon, the Morning a er the Fire, The 132, 133; Rail, Steam and Speed 135; relationship with father 130, 131–132; relationship with mother 129–130; and religion 136–137; and Royal Academy 130, 132, 135; Shade and Darkness / Light and Color 135–136; Slave Ship 134–135, 138 n 16; and Sublime 125, 129, 132, 135, 136
Tustin, Frances 109, 110, 158, 159, 160, 163, 166, 167, 178, 188n7
“two person” psychology 31–34; and enactments 32–33
uncertainty/unknown 62, 65, 66, 67, 104
unconscious 14; and analytic frame 11; and countertransference 4, 17, 19, 20, 21–22, 26; and emotion 10, 11–12; and enactments 33; Freud on 12, 87, 88, 90, 92–93, 95, 100, 213–214; as instrument of analysis 21, 25, 28, 29, 32, 88, 90, 93, 94, 96, 98, 100, 204; and intersubjectivity 4–5, 9, 12; and intuition 95, 96; and
receptivity of analyst 88, 90, 91, 92–95; and shared O 70, see also dreams; reverie
unconscious communication 2, 4–5, 73–74, 150, 199, 210; and alpha function 11, 12; analyst’s receptivity to 87, 92–93, 97, 99, 100–101, 118; and countertransference 22, 23, 29; Freud’s telephone metaphor for 12; and projective identification 25, 99; and reverie/dreaming 10, 11, 12, 44, 60n18, 100; and working through 199–200
unconscious memory 87, 90, 92, 100, 103, 152, 189, 190
unconscious phantasy see phantasy unconscious work 4, 5, 8, 71, 205, 209, 218; and here-and-now 10
unrepresented affects 10, 94, 143, 148, 194, 199
unsaturated concepts 65
Uruguayan psychoanalysis 26, 71, 141, 205
waking dream thoughts 36–37, 69
war neuroses 46–47; and sexuality 47
Weiss, Eduardo 91
Wellfleet, Massachuses 213
Weltanschauung 14, 203–218; and analytic setting/frame 210–211; and four types of transformation 215–218; and intuition/ unconscious work 205, 206, 209; and palimpsest text 207–208; and past theories 212–214; and qualities of contemporary analysts 203–205; and reverie/dreaming 204, 205, 206, 208, 209–210; and rise of far right 211
Whyte, I. 127
Winnico, D. 11, 28, 106, 107, 108, 121n7; and facilitating environment 158, 167; on fear of breakdown 168; and holding environment 109
Winters, Jonathan 175
Woolf, Virginia 160
working through 14, 124, 145, 152, 153, 189–200; and autism 160; and Bion 42, 51, 191, 194, 195, 196, 200; and Boston Change Group 198–200; clinical example of see Edw ard; and construction/working hypothesis 196–197; Freud on 152,
189, 194, 196; and here-and-now of the session 190, 198, 199, 200; and intersubjectivity 197–198, 199, 200; on micro/macro levels 196, 200; and nonlinearity 198–199; and progress 191; and repetitions/ transference neuroses 189–190, 194
World War I: and Bion see Bion’s war experiences; and Sarajevo 39, 40; and war neuroses 46–47