ABSTRACT

Freud, Klein and Bion have provided the most relevant and substantial contributions to psychoanalytical theory and praxis. Klein was very much Freudian and Bion was both. There is undoubtedly a progressive epistemological evolution in their creativity; it will be similar to observe the same phenomenon by changing the objective of a microscope from a lower to a higher resolution power. It will be of lesser advantage for the understanding of the mind, to disregard this analogy and to accept as true that psychoanalysis, like religion, represents different beliefs. There is only one mind, but different viewers. Wild Thoughts Searching for a Thinker is essentially a clinical book that explores the connections between some of Bion's novel theories and those from Classical Psychoanalysis, mainly contributions from Freud, Klein and Winnicott. It also represents a substantial endeavour to make Bion not only more accessible to readers, but also and very important, to see his theories at work, in direct practical use during the here and now interaction throughout the consulting hour.

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

chapter One|18 pages

Murdering the mind

From the perspective of Bion's container–contained theory

chapter Two|14 pages

The forgotten self

With the use of Bion's theory of negative links*

chapter Three|25 pages

Preconceptual traumas and the “internal traumatic object" 1

From the point of view of Bion’s concept of “caesura”

chapter Four|8 pages

Self-envy

From the point of view of "part objects" and "link" theory

chapter Five|8 pages

"Nameless terror"

chapter Six|13 pages

Murdering "gangs" and narcissistic conglomerates

From the point of view of Bion's saturated–unsaturated theory

chapter Seven|9 pages

Excessive projective identification

chapter Eight|7 pages

The relativity of the vertex

From the point of view of a binocular vision

chapter Nine|13 pages

The unconscious

Denouncing consciousness's fear of truth

chapter Ten|15 pages

Interpreting or translating the unconscious?

chapter Eleven|12 pages

The three faces of the preconscious

From the point of view of Bion's theory of functions

chapter Twelve|13 pages

Listening to "O"

chapter Thirteen|12 pages

"O" or countertransference?

chapter Fourteen|13 pages

Using the Grid

chapter Fifteen|12 pages

Dreams: stray thoughts in search of a thinker