ABSTRACT
William Butler Yeats said in Words (at the age of 75): “At length / My darling understands it all, / Because I have come into my strength, / And words obey my call”. Bion’s way of writing has specific peculiarities. It is not a question of style, because style is amenable to be imitated. The Trilogy challenges imitation; is it inimitable? Comparisons with Freud are unavoidable, because he established a pattern of excellence. One may safely state that Freud had a gift of graciously furnishing a “flowing feature” to his writings. These had some remarkable, albeit superficial, similarities with the work of writers, so it was not by mere coincidence that Freud won a literature prize; that many people, impacted by what is a mere appearance, concluded that he specialised in writing a kind of roman à clef; and finally, that many people from the intelligentsia became convinced that psychoanalysis and literature were the same thing.
