ABSTRACT
Dr. James Grotstein lived Bion’s legacy in his own way, adding several new insights to what Bion wrote. He knew him from many perspectives: he had been in analysis with Bion and they were close colleagues in LA from 1968 to 1979, when Bion lived there. When Bion died in 1979, Grotstein (1983) had the idea of editing a monumental book in honour of Bion entitled, Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? Having written numerous lectures and papers, Grotstein (2007) wrote his seminal book, A Beam of Intense Darkness: Wilfred Bion’s Legacy to Psychoanalysis, in which he explored the impact of Bion’s ideas from a mystic-psychoanalytic perspective. He tried to interact with patients from the numinous experience of knowing and being in the world. As far as I knew him, he practised from this way of being, coloured by his wit, generosity, and serenity.
