ABSTRACT
A “beam of darkness” constitutes an antidote to the tendency, often found in the human species, to carry out “transformations in hallucinosis” to impose meanings on what has no meaning because of one's incapacity to wait for shreds of meaning to emerge. James S. Grotstein stresses the importance of offering a “holographic” reading of Wilfred Bion, in order to allow us not to miss any of his multiple viewpoints. Grotstein reflects on the huge quantity of intellectual tools and techniques that Bion has given to the whole psychoanalytic community. Grotstein describes an infinite Unconscious that continuously expands through the tracing not of indelible motorways but of what would rather resemble the forces of a magnetic field in a state of uninterrupted transformation. Grotstein claims that Bion uses a Kleinian technique, even if he does so in an exquisitely personal manner. Grotstein clarifies how Klein’s projective identifications are profoundly different entities from Bion’s.
