ABSTRACT
Much has been written about Bion’s Caesura which was first published as: Two Papers: The Grid and Caesura in 1977. This workshop focused on the recording of his lecture in 1975. Workshop participants endeavored “to turn ourselves into resounding song-boxes carving out careful emptiness like those in cellos and violins”. Workshop members listened to selected sections of Wilfred Bion’s Caesura Lecture recorded in Los Angeles in 1975. Bion makes note of the importance of theory but also emancipates psychoanalysis from theory alone. He provides with his notes on technique, including accessibility of the analyst’s mind in relation to the primordial muchness of the patient’s intrauterine and perinatal experience. He also expresses hope that the analyst’s analysis has been extensive enough to provide a safe receptor site for projections and hallucinations in her patient and herself.
