ABSTRACT
In this chapter, a record of the author’s journey with W. R. Bion, reactions to, reveries about, and struggles to ‘be’ with the text are inseparable from her understanding. Bion’s choice of the novel format is best understood within the framework offered by M. M. Bahktin. Ultimately, the quest for both Bion and the writers to whom we have compared him is a mystical one to the extent that mysticism is distinguished from other religious forms because of the centrality of an intense, immediate, and urgent awareness of a living relationship with God. Bion seems humorously aware of the incomprehensibility of dream section and creates a final, impatient character/commentator who admits he has not read the section but is simply looking this far ahead ‘to see how it ends.’ The Dream section offers the closest look into the other reality by creating an experience of its apprehension in the reader, an invaluable contribution although not necessarily an always enjoyable one.
