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 our incapacity to wait for shreds of meaning to emerge. James 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 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. For Grotstein, Bion considers two aspects of projective identifications: a normal communication; and an abnormal communication when the child employs such a mechanism, after a failure of normal communication. For Grotstein projective identifications are the engine of every transference, whether it concerns past or present states of mind.
