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1st Edition

Reading Bion

By Rudi Vermote Copyright 2019
284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge
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Wilfred R. Bion is considered a ground-breaking psychoanalyst. His thinking is rooted in Freud and Klein from where it takes an original flight. Reading Bion shows the evolution of his seminal insights in psychic functioning and puts them in a wider context. Rudi Vermote integrates a chronological close reading and discussion of Bion’s texts, with a comprehensive approach of his... Read more

INTRODUCTION

PART I: BEFORE THE CAESURA: TRANSFORMATIONS IN KNOWLEDGE

  1. Biography, 1897–1996

  2. Experiences in Groups and Other Papers (1961)

  3. Papers on psychosis (1953–1960)

  4. Learning from Experience (1962)

  5. Elements of Psychoanalysis (1963)

  6.  Transformations (1965)

PART II: AFTER THE CAESURA: TRANSFORMATIONS IN O

  1. Biography, 1967–1979

  2. Attention and Interpretation (1970)

  3. Second thoughts: commentary on the Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis (1967)

  4. A Memoir of the Future (1977)

  5. Lectures, seminars and some short texts as preparation for the lectures (1973–1979)

  6. Autobiography
  7. The further development of Bion’s ideas

CONCLUSION

ADDENDA

Listening to and Reading Bion by James S. Grotstein

My indebtedness to Bion by Antonino Ferro

Discovering Bion: A personal memoir by H.B. Levine

Biography

Rudi Vermote, M.D., Ph.D., is a training analyst, past president of the Belgian Society of Psychoanalysis and Professor at the University of Leuven. He has published and lectured on Bion’s work and is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and Honorary Member of the Psychoanalytic Center of California.

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