Time and the Unconscious - Daring and Creativity in Wilfred R. Bion

Bion's unfashionable thought is a challenge for our times in which anesthesia and mass thinking prevail. The themes this book addresses are time and the unconscious.

List of contents

Introduction: Why does one choose a theory? First Part: Present/Past 1. Inaccessible states of the mind 2. The inaccessible and the uncontainable in the clinic 3. Recognising unrepresentable pain 4. Time and Space. Walking across the Time, between Freud and Bion 5. Stray thoughts. Philosophy and Neurobiology in dialogue with Bion's theory of time and thinking Second Part: Conscious/Unconscious 1. The problem of the Bionian Unconscious 2. (Mythical) origins of the Unconscious 3. Representation (Vortsellung) and Presentation (Darstellung) 4. Intuition and reality of O 5. At-one-ment, Atonement, Incarnation

About the author

Goriano Rugi, M.D., psychiatrist, psychotherapist, is a member and training analyst of the Italian Institute of Group Psychoanalysis (I.I.P.G. IIPG). He teaches at the I.I.P.G. School of Specialisation in Milan and at the European Research Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Padua. He is a trainer and supervisor at various institutions. He lives and works in Verona. His best-known works are Transformations of Pain (2015), Diagnosis and Mental Disorders (2018) and Time and the Unconscious (2023), Milan, FrancoAngeli.

Summary

Bion's unfashionable thought is a challenge for our times in which anesthesia and mass thinking prevail. The themes this book addresses are time and the unconscious.

Product details

• Authors: Goriano Rugi
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032655215
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3265521-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Psychoanalytic Field Theory Book Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis