An introduction to the reading of Bion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8972102 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas H Ogden (0000-0001-8800-1435, 306 Laurel Street, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 285-300 |
| Publication date | 2004-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1516/3tpr-axtl-0r8m-7eq0 |
| OpenAlex | W4254141849 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 41 |
| References cited | 7 |
The author suggests that a good deal of the confusion that arises in the course of reading Bion derives from the fact that Bion's analytic writing is comprised of two periods of work that involve markedly different conceptions of psychoanalysis. These two periods require of the reader very different ways of reading and generate contrasting experiences in reading. Bion, in passages in Learning from experience (1962) and Attention and interpretation (1970), offers advice to the reader regarding how he would like his ‘early’ and ‘late’ work to be read. The author treats the experience of reading these passages as ports of entry into the fundamental tenets underlying Bion's widely differing conceptions of the psychoanalytic enterprise. The experience of reading early Bion generates a sense of psychoanalysis as a never completed process of clarifying obscurities and obscuring clarifications, which enterprise moves in the direction of a convergence of disparate meanings. Incontrast, the experience of reading Bion's later work conveys a sense of psychoanalysis as a process involving a movement toward infinite expansion of meaning. The author offers a detailed account of an analytic experience which he discusses from a point of view informed by Bion's work, particularly his late work
Confusion · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Reading (process · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Educational Philosophies and Pedagogies · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
Crafting Masculine Selves
Playing with “The Imaginer and the Imagined”
Três conceções da memória na psicanálise
Say Anything
Esperanza and the Melancholy of Otherness
Playing as a basic form of living
At the Beginning There Was…– Re-Considering the Concepts of ‘Faith’ and ‘Trust’ as Analytic Objects
Rediscovering Bion and Rickman's leaderless group projects
“Reappraising John O. Wisdom’s Critique of W.R. Bion’s Learning from Experience at a meeting of the British Psychoanalytical Society—17 October 1964.”
Countertransference Dreaming
Desiring (With) Bion
On wabi sabi and the aesthetics of family secrets
Dangerous Liaisons
Linking with W. R. Bion
Chemistry and Containing
Imaginative Literature and Bion’s Intersubjective Theory of Thinking
Intuiting the Truth of What’s Happening
Bion’s “Evidence” and His Theoretical Style
Kafka, Borges, and The Creation of Consciousness, Part I
Infinity, The Conscious And Unconscious Mind
Giving Back What the Patient Brings
Bion’s Ego Psychology
Reading Harold Searles
Why read Fairbairn
What alive means
Like the belly of a bird breathing
Feeling one's way in the world
Fear of breakdown and the unlived life
This art of psychoanalysis
A ‘quantum’ of truth in a field of lies
Reading Loewald
Transference
On teaching psychoanalysis
Elements of analytic style
On holding and containing, being and dreaming
On family secrets and –k
On psychoanalytic writing
Reading Susan Isaacs
Treatment Preparatory To Psychoanalysis
Bion’s Agony in The Long Week-End
Paul Ricoeur
| Unique citing works | 41 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,86 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2026 (23) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 39 |