ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author introduces the reader to some of Wilfred Bion's concepts, developed in the book Elements of Psycho-analysis. In this book, Bion proposes the Grid as an instrument for "playing" "psychoanalytical games", somewhat akin to the rehearsals or exercises that a musician carries out before a concert, meant as a preparation and training for the analyst before or after the session. For Bion in psychoanalysis, it is crucial to be able to combine abstraction with a particularity (for example, a dream, a dream thought, a myth, a model). Constant conjunction is a term that Bion borrowed from the philosopher David Hume; he gave it a meaning of his own, in the context of his developments of the thinking function. Bion described them as the matrix functions for the generation of thoughts and the development of the possibilities of using them for thinking.
