ABSTRACT
An emotional stance of tolerating paradoxes is at the core of the psychoanalytic attitude in general, and at the heart of Wilfred Bion's psychoanalytic thinking. The notion of attacks on linking, to the author mind, depicts a paradoxical, caesural experience in which the attack on linking is also a link in itself. The possibility of moving among different vertices without collapsing to linear, one-dimensional thinking facilitates psychic transformation and growth. Bion describes a patient with whom the establishment of an analytically potent relationship by means of verbal communication at a certain period in the analysis seemed to be impossible. The patient's ability to profit from analysis lies in the opportunity to split off parts of his psyche and project them into the analyst, in the hope that their dwelling in his psyche would enable their transformation. This possibility is felt as a primitive link providing a foundation on which, ultimately, verbal communication depended.
