ABSTRACT
Why does the future beckon for some people and not for others? In this chapter, building on an extension of her previous ideas, the author stresses the importance of other people being able to ‘dream’ a child’s future, examining additional features in the role of internal figures in the growing child’s or developing adult’s sense of future possibilities. Clinical material from despairing and apathetic patients, together with observations of babies’ crawling and walking will be used to relate Bion’s theory of knowledge to Panksepp’s neuroscientific work on the Seeking System.
