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In this illuminating volume, Arnaldo Chuster provides a thorough critique of Wilfred Bion's seminal 1965 work, Transformations.
List of contents
1. A Manifesto in Favor of the Psychoanalytic Imagination 2.General Ideas on Transformations 3. Bion's Advanced Ideas on the Psychoanalytic Use of Functions 4. Catastrophic Change 5.Why Only Four Transformations Inside the Psychoanalytic Field? 6. Transformations, Time, and Space 7. Turbulence and Catastrophic Change 8. Catastrophic Change and Cultural Possibilities 9. Exploring Complexity: Functions of the Psychoanalytic Object in Analysis 10.Realization: The Complex Transformation of Pre-Conception to Conception 11.The Ethical-Aesthetical Principle of Uncertainty: Cultivating New Spaces for Thinking 12.The Spectrum Model (Open System) and the Diverse Grids 13.Transformation in 'O': A Never-ending Transformation 14.The Myth of Satan: An Ethical-Aesthetical Model of Transformation in 'O' 15.Transformations in Hallucinosis: An Utmost Clinical Challenge 16.Always 'O': Ontology and Epistemology
About the author
Arnaldo Chuster is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Rio de Janeiro Psychoanalytic Society (SPRJ), affiliated with the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), as well as a member of the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute (NPI) in California, and an honorary member and Professor at the W.R. Bion Institute, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Elahe Sagart is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with a private practice in Newport Beach, California. She specializes in Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychoanalysis and serves as a core faculty member at the New Center for Psychoanalysis (NCP) in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Sagart is a member of both the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) and the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA). She is also the founder of the Rustin Psychoanalytic Group in Tehran, Iran.
Summary
In this illuminating volume, Arnaldo Chuster provides a thorough critique of Wilfred Bion's seminal 1965 work, Transformations.
