ABSTRACT
W. R. Bion was not the founder of a "new" school of psychoanalytical theory but was very firmly embedded in Freudian theory and ways of thinking. Almost all the authors are psychoanalysts, and the differences in language reflect both different approaches to different parts of Bion's writings and also, probably, different styles of psychoanalytical culture in different countries. "Human reasoning"—and specifically psychoanalytical reasoning—are taken severely to task by Emanuele Bonasia in "The Sick Syllogism", in which he discusses what he feels to be the fundamentally unsatisfactory results of all theories, philosophical and psychoanalytical, when it is a question of coming to terms with the reality of one's own death. According to Haydee Faimberg, Bion is classical in the sense that Calvino gives to this term—namely, that a classic produces a new meaning at each reading for every reader.
