ABSTRACT
Thank you for coming back today. It’s hard to believe it’s already the last day. Although we don’t understand each other’s language, I feel a deep bond with the people I’ve met in Korea, a soul bond. It seems like there are less and less people everyday, but those who came today are here to get more. A couple of people said how hard Bion is for them, and that maybe someday they will be able to get into it. My recommendation, if you are interested in trying, is to start with his seminars. He has the Tavistock seminars (2005), the Italian seminars [2005], the Paris seminar [2000], and another seminar, the one I attended, is called Bion in New York and Sao Paolo [1980]. My favourite of his seminars, perhaps for the essays that the book includes afterwards, is the Clinical Seminars and Other Works [1994]. A sentence I like a lot in the beginning of the paper, “Making the Best of a Bad Job,” is “When two people meet, an emotional storm is created.” (p. 1994, p. 321; Eigen 2005, p. 17). This sentence became the 56basis of my book, Emotional Storm, in which, among other things, I link aspects of Bion with Buber, Levinas and Wittgenstein.
