ABSTRACT
W. R. Bion enigmatically tells that although this statement is akin to the type of statement that philosophers contemptuously dismiss as mythologies when they use the term pejoratively to describe bad theories". This chapter argues that statements of "personal myth" are particularly powerful containers and conveyers of emotion, reflect the subjectivity, emotional engagement, and therefore "passion" of the analyst, are useful to approximate previously unarticulated aspects of the non-dynamic unconscious of the patient. Bion's assertion about at-one-ment is consistent with his belief that: the term "science", as it has been commonly used hitherto to describe an attitude to objects of sense, is not adequate to represent an approach to those realities with which "psychoanalytical science" has to deal. Bion makes the following observation about dreams, dream-work, latent content, and alpha: Freud assumed that the interpretation, the latent content, was the origin of the dream, and that it had been worked on by the dream-work to produce the dream.
