ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the imagery of Kali as it presents itself in the writings of Bion and Eigen. It seeks to hold Kali up as an imaginal resonance and overtone to their work, to let her impact play off against their writings and enhance its significance, and to lift awareness to an implicit theme. Bion's traumatisation in the First World War functions as a crucial bedrock of experience for, and root of, his writings. The movement from catastrophe to faith is the Kali explosion that struggles to find its way into form; the experience is redeemed because it has found the grace of containment and representation. The psychological gesture that allows this redemption is captured in Bion's Faith. Both Bion and Eigen have opened themselves up to a naked and flaying Kali, in both her destructive and transcendent forms. Both have emphasised the importance of psychoanalytical writing that evokes experience.
