ABSTRACT
Like a Brechtian actor, Bion plays the role of the analyst, and then he steps to one side and shows us what he is doing. The world is a stage, he seems to be telling us that all of us are merely players. Among other things, in English, the word evidence is much closer to the concept of truth than the Italian evidenza because it also means proof - in particular, in legal language - as well as trace, sign. It is important that there should be a mixture of dream thinking and logical-abstract thinking, so as to redeem unreflection through reflection, to graft intuitions onto concepts and concepts onto intuitions. At the level of manifest discourse, this is the heart of 'Evidence', the point of convergence towards which all its lines of force are moving: the problem of truth and which truth receives its first unveiling in psychoanalysis.
