ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines W. R. Bion’s suggestion that a science of relationships–not of the related objects–has to be developed, to further research in psychoanalysis and in social functioning, in groups, institutions. It discusses the methods for the investigation of the relationship: binocular vision; oscillation and alternating use of different vertices, the way different lenses are used in a microscope; observation and correlation of what is observed from multiple vertices; and reversible perspective. The chapter deals with the “developmental conflicts” and in which the author try to go deeper into the problem of evolution and mental growth. It explains the terms caesura and vertices, as they are fundamental to understanding the problem related to the methods for transcending caesuras in the sense of growth and obstacles to it. Mental growth is timeless and catastrophic. Change towards growth is vital for the individual, for the group, for society.
