ABSTRACT
Agree with the argument or not, it is undeniable that in many quarters some of the theories proposed by Wilfred Bion are felt to be obscure. Most of them were intended to help the analyst’s observation and improve his or her powers of observation, like the theories of alpha function, the realm of Minus, transformations and invariance, and finally the theory of links (Bion, 1962, 1965, 1970). As I wrote elsewhere (Sandler, 2005, 2006), Bion’s contributions to psychoanalytic theory are comparatively few vis-à-vis his theories of observation for use by the practising analyst.
