Experiences in K and -K
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8973228 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John A Schneider (0009-0003-0553-3447, 2340 Ward St, Suite 106Berkeley, CA 94705USA) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 825-839 |
| Publication date | 2005-06-01 |
| 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/hdcg-54wd-07m7-rk1w |
| PMID | 16096077 |
| OpenAlex | W2054214631 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 4 |
In this paper the author explores and expands Bion's concepts of K and -K and delineates the nature of the relationship between the two. While Bion views envy as a principal motivating force for -K, his conception of -K goes considerably beyond this. The author explores manifestations of -K not driven by envy and, consequently, not necessarily pathological or pathogenic. -K is viewed by the author as a psychological process, which may serve many functions, including the communication of the patient's fear that knowing will bring on psychological catastrophe. -K, under circumstances that he describes, may serve to protect the individual's sense of continuity of being. The need to know the truth (K) may be at odds with the need to survive psychically, for example, when a person fears that the truth will kill him, or those he loves and depends upon. This idea is explored in two ways: first, by means of a discussion of the Oedipus myth in which Oedipus attempts to evade knowing for fear of recognizing that a prophesied catastrophe has already occurred; and, second, by means of a clinical exploration of the conflict between the need to know and the need to survive. The author discusses his analytic work with a severely disturbed patient for whom not knowing was felt to be essential to her psychic survival. Her need not to know reached a point where she psychically obliterated the analyst through the use of negative hallucination
Psychoanalysis · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources on the Life, Work, and Ideas of Wilfred Ruprecht Bion
Containment and Failures of Containment
Panic as a Form of Foreclosed Experience
Attacks on Linking or a Drive to Communicate? Tolerating the Paradox
Possessive Objects and Paralyzing Moods
Bion’s Thinking about Groups
From Freud’s dream‐work to Bion’s work of dreaming
On family secrets and –k
The lost mother tongue
On black holes, psychic deadness and aliveness
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2022 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |