ABSTRACT
Who was Beckett’s Bion? References in his correspondence range from the benign chumship of the “covey” to the perpetrator of the “London Torture”. In time, aspects of Beckett’s construction emerge in literary clarification from Basil’s burning stare to the brotherly camaraderie of gunner (Beckett, 1995a, p. 112; 2006b, p. 292). Indeed, the oscillations of Beckett’s expressive feeling in relation to both Bion and the psychoanalytic experience itself are highly reflective of different moments of transference.
