1st Edition
Beckett and Bion The (Im)Patient Voice in Psychotherapy and Literature
By Ian Miller
Copyright 2013
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book focuses on Samuel Beckett's psychoanalytic psychotherapy with W. R. Bion as a central aspect both of Beckett's and Bion's radical transformations of literature and psychoanalysis. The recent publication of Beckett's correspondence during the period of his psychotherapy with Bion provides a starting place for an imaginative reconstruction of this psychotherapy, culminating with Bion's... Read more
Introduction , The Context and Events of Beckett’s Psychotherapy with Bion , Presenting problems , Proust as metapsychology , The first year of treatment: 1934 , Year two: 1935 , Broadening the context of this psychotherapy , Beckett’s Bion and Bion’s Bion , An Interpretative Construction of Beckett’s Literary Development and Bion’s Later Clinical Theories , Free association: Beckett’s private theatre , The novellas: Part One , The novellas: Part Two , Three essays on “the trilogy” , The psychology of characters , Reaching the limit of free association , Patient Zero: learning from the Beckett experience , Conclusion
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Ian Miller
