ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book addresses how we can confer figurability on the primitive traumas inscribed in an unconscious that is not made up of representations. The human capacity to dream both at night and while awake can be seen as the task of creating a film of meaning that functions as a para-excitatory screen against the traumatic nature of reality. It is also is also connected to dreaming. For Bion, truth is the food that makes the mind grow. The route along which we have ventured in our exploration of the unconscious finally comes to an end with a re-reading of a brief but intense paper by Bion, 'Evidence', which is absolutely crucial to the question of the senses and the analyst's receptivity to the derivatives of the unconscious.
