ABSTRACT
The author examines the construction of the Grid. Allowing his imagination to roam freely, the author tentatively offers a dynamic, in-relief representation of it. Precisely because it illustrates with such immediacy the compact dialectic that links the various concepts used by Bion, the Grid lends itself to the generation of new interpretative hypotheses. Next, the author considers the meaning of column. His basic thesis is that given its felicitous reinterpretation by Grotstein as the dreaming column, it can throw light on a central aspect of Bion's theory of thought - namely, the concepts of truth and the 'truth drive'. The author believes that the Grid offers a fascinating perspective on the connections between dreams, knowledge and truth. Bion sees the search for truth as a central drive, so that Meltzer even writes that his theory of the mind is 'epistemological', while Grotstein invokes a 'truth drive'.
