ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the Bionian conceit of transformation and its role in contemporary psychoanalysis before taking up Bollas's concepts of idiom and the "Transformational Object". It discusses 'transformation' via the concept of O, contextualizing Wilfred Bion's own advice on how to conceive it before turning to Michelangelo Antonioni's film Blow-Up as an illustration of Bion's notion of invariance and its significance within his theory of transformations. The chapter attempts to HBO's television program Westworld to consider how the moving image as an external object influences psychoanalysts' self-experience and perception of it. It shows that the 'use' of film and media, argues that moving images as 'external objects' are worked with to engender transformative self-experience within the spectator, unconsciously and consciously. The chapter aims to prioritize the possibility of transformative self-experience with moving images through Bion's intention with the concept of O.
