ABSTRACT
Freud resolves it with the concept of free-floating or evenly suspended attention. This chapter draws the concept of 'transformation in hallucinosis' with which Bion addresses the subject of the analyst's receptivity; however, the concept is little known - with only two references in English in the PEP archive: Riolo, 2011; Emanuel, 2012 - outside the tight circle of Bion scholars: Meltzer, López-Corvo, Grotstein. The chapter describes three kinds of transformation which entail differing degrees of distortion in the emotional element of departure: in rigid motion (RMT), projective (PT) and in hallucinosis. The first two correspond respectively to the transference and to projective identifications. To describe the third type of transformation, however, which is an original construction of his own, Bion borrows from psychiatry the term 'hallucinosis'. Regression can also produce situations of psychotic imbalance resulting in evident hallucinosis.
