ABSTRACT
This chapter considers a pillar of James Grotstein’s Weltanschauung: his consistent belief in what Wilfred Bion has called “binocularity”, which is a capacity to consider an event through multiple vertices, thus yielding a more complex perspective of the object under study. Grotstein has employed his dual track theorem in creative and inclusive ways to eschew black or white, either/or, arguments. He argued for understanding these problems “as both a psychoanalytic entity and a psychiatric one”, as well as from a point of view that includes Bion’s idea of the normal and psychotic parts of the personality. The idea of an internal dreaming couple is a brilliant extension of the psychoanalytic understanding of the dream that encompasses the work of Freud, Klein, Bion and Winnicott along with Grotstein’s own creative interpretations. It brings an interpersonal face to Freud’s mechanism of dream-work and also further delineates the tie to Klein’s concept of the internal couple as well as Bion’s container/contained model.
