ABSTRACT
There are the idealizing tones in which W. R. Bion Bion is spoken of, the way he is exulted to the point of being considered the holy spirit of our Olympus's sacred trinity, which often serves to mask the absence of a profound and critical knowledge of the history of psychoanalysis. Suffice it to recall that at a certain point in his career Bion, tired of this game of pigeonholing which he felt so restricted his freedom to think, decided to leave the United Kingdom. Thus during the period covered by Cogitations Bion appears as a tragic hero, caught up in a struggle for identity that is ultimately doomed to failure because he is still bound to the breast that fed him and first awakened in him the passion for analysis. The Bionian tragic essence of Cogitations thus lies in the absolute split between theory and clinical attitude.
