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Zusatztext "When approaching Bion's "A Memoir of the Future" (MF) we can recall Laertius words: ?skimming over the book of Heraclitus; 'tis a difficult road! for mist is there! and darkness hard to pierce! but if you have the truth as a guide! then everything is clearer than the sun." Anybody interested in Bion immense contribution to the understanding of the working mind! reading MF is absolutely indispensable because represents the physiology of the intrapsychic! a space of dream paradoxically at once! obscure and radiant." This is why! Giuseppe Civitarese and a group of outstanding psychoanalysts! psychologists and literary writers! after carefully scrutinizing all sides of MF! had finally provided a torch of intuition to 'pierce its darkness.' I highly recommend this book to all professionals in mental health interested in Bion's contributions" Rafael López-Corvo is a Psychiatrist and a training and supervising psychoanalyst of the IPA! Venezuelan and Canadian Psychoanalytic Societies. "This volume is an indispensable introduction to Bion's remarkable! long neglected! provocative and often puzzling masterpiece! Memoir of the Future. It reveals and explores the many dimensions of Bion's final! passionate attempt to illuminate the realm of dream work and psychic reality! as it shows how Bion moves beyond linear! narrative discourse in the hopes of transmitting to his readers?the meaning of what we call psychic reality through?an experience of the psychic movements that produce thought! feeling and enigmatic! emergent truth"Howard B. Levine! MD! Psychoanalytic Institute of New England! East (PINE)!Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS) Informationen zum Autor Giuseppe Civitarese! psychiatrist! PhD in psychiatry and relational sciences! is a training and supervising analyst in the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI)! and a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) and of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). Previous work includes! The Intimate Room: Theory and Technique of the Analytic Field! The Violence of Emotions: Bion and post-Bionian Psychoanalysis! Truth and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis and! with co-author Howard Levine !The W. R. Bion Tradition Lines of Development - Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades. Zusammenfassung Bion and Contemporary Psychoanalysis? examines the importance and continued relevance of A Memoir of the Future in understanding and applying Bion’s work to contemporary psychoanalysis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: GIUSEPPE CIVITARESEWhy Bion? Why now? Novel forms and the mystical questLISSA WEINSTEIN"Psychoanalysis! I believe" in Wonderland. Reading and literature in A Memoir of the Future SARA BOFFITOBion and the apes: The bridging problem of A Memoir of the Future BENJAMIN H. OGDENA Memoir of the Future and Memoir of the NuminousMAURO MANICAA Memoir of the Future and the defence against knowledge ANTONINO FERROWilfred's Razor: A reading of W.R. Bion's A Memoir of the Future GIOVANNI FORESTI7. Memories of the future! realisations in the present. The oneiric destiny of pre-conceptions which turn up in the minds of dreamers VIOLET PIETRANTONI8. The ineffable AVNER BERGSTEIN9. Psychoanalysis "at the mind's limits": Trauma! history! and paronomasia as "a flower of language" in A memoir of the FutureCLARA MUCCI10. The "Memoir" experienced from the standpoint of contemporary art : A chronicle of a death foretoldADELA ABELLA11. Reflections on 'Nonsense' in A Memoir of the Future DUNCAN CARTWRIGHT ...
