ABSTRACT
Wilfred Bion presents arguments to explain situations where patients could alter their position in relation to outside objects by changing their view-point as a result of splitting of time and space dimensions. Bion refers to correlation in relation to splitting as observed in projective and introjective identifications, or in what he also referred to as reversible perspective where the perverse aspect correlates with the part that, due to guilt, repents. Bion has used the concept of “correlation”, meaning the character of two correlative terms, where one cannot take place without the other, such as, for instance, between tall and short, good and bad. He refers to a “binocular vision”, such as, for instance, the capacity to consider the breast and its absence as two different spaces, an attitude possible only when there exists the capacity to symbolize the absent object.
