ABSTRACT
W. R. Bion's Theory of Thinking has some essential truth in it one must expect that new ideas, the ones which have an impact to produce catastrophic change, would appear first in dream form, only later to find some verbal and abstract representation. This chapter suggests that passions represent states of turbulence arising from the paradoxical impact of one intense emotion on another, producing turbulence by reason of the conflict with previously established ideas about the meaning of these emotions and their relevance to the organization of our internal world. A young woman in her early thirties, a professional musician and a person of charm and beauty, asked to see some three years after the ending of her analysis. The chapter also suggests that this young woman, newly arrived at adulthood, is being obliged to reckon with a new value system which dislocates all her previous values of precise emotional pitch and harmonious relations.
