ABSTRACT
Wilfred Bion makes use of the spectrum of the electromagnetic waves as an analogy for emphasizing the limits of sensory apparatus, which receives only a small part of the spectrum. This is the small part of the spectrum, in which one could talk about it as being verbally communicable. D. W. Winnicott writes of the fear of breakdown and the pull towards it, and Bion writes of catastrophic change and the fear of it. Both meet in the realm of the unrepressed unconscious. Both focus on the dread of encountering emotional truth encapsulated in the unmentalized, unrepressed unconscious, threatening the mind with a psychotic state. Bion's metaphor of the spectrum of the electromagnetic waves, the author explains the irrepresentable, imperceptible experiences, not part of the sensuous reality that is verbally or mentally communicable. This may be the unknowable 'ultimate reality' that can only be approached through its derivatives in sensuous reality.
