ABSTRACT
The urge to communicate, alongside the difficulty to communicate, is the Ariadne’s thread running throughout Bion’s work and seems to be a very powerful driving force in Bion’s need to write. In his writings, it often seems he is going out of his way in order to describe the frustration and suffering he feels in the face of the inability to communicate the emotional experience. Mystical thinking maintains that truth is hidden from the senses, from language, and from thought. It is concerned with the unknown, concealed, and zero-ness. Bion began to be interested in mystics when he realized that many of them had found it very difficult to put their experiences of revelations into words and communicate it to others who had not had this personal and unique experience. Moreover, Bion says he wanted to bring in the word ‘mystic’ into the psychoanalytic discourse as a synonym for ‘a scientist’ or ‘an artist’.
