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List of contents
Series Editor’s Foreword , Introduction , Integrative Concepts , The concepts of the container and contained in Bion’s thought , The selected fact , The caesura , Person , How thoughts are born in light of Bionian theory , Looking at the myth of Oedipus following Bion , Group , An introduction to Bion’s contribution to group dynamics , Myths, memories, and roles: how they live again in the group process , Bion’s links: how they are manifested in the Foulkesian matrix , The “untouchable”: racism and prejudice in the analytic group , Society , The difficulty of channelling rage into dialogue , From possessing to belonging , The social unconscious and its manifestation in the analytic group , A boy is torn between two realities: looking at his biography in the light of the social unconscious , The unconscious emergence of identity , Epilogue
About the author
Hanni Biran, MA, is a clinical psychologist, a trainee psychoanalyst and lecturer and supervisor at Tel Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, where she is a member of the committee for social involvement of the Institute. A group analyst, she is also a lecturer at The Israeli Institute of Group Analysis and supervises many teams and staff members in public clinics and hospitals involved in group psychotherapy. She has also been trained according to the group relations tradition of Tavistock Institute, and conducts small and large groups and role analysis workshops in Israel and abroad. She is a lecturer in the program for psychotherapy at Tel Aviv University and in the program for psychotherapy at Magid Institute, The Hebrew University.
Summary
This book observes psychoanalytic thinking through three prisms: person, group and society. The book is divided into four sections. The first revolves around the individual. Clinical in its emphasis, it discusses Bion's theory of thinking, his reading of the Oedipus myth and his notion of the "selected fact".
