ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the text "Notes on Memory and Desire", in that Wilfred Bion proposes achieving the discipline of attempting to listen without memories and desires. This text clarifies the following: how to try when there is no hope; how hope is related to desire; and how to deal with such paradox. These are raised during the supervision D17. The chapter also focuses on the notion of passion, through the idea of "passionate intercourse". The "passionate relationship" idea allows analysts to consider body and soul as an indissoluble unit and fertility as something that is not just physical, organic. The same applies to marriage also. The supervision ends with the "minimal working conditions for the analyst". Bion increases these minimal working conditions by approaching the analyst's personal needs, such as time, pay, rest, leisure, for example, which need to be taken into consideration so that a true analytic relationship is installed.
