ABSTRACT
These newly discovered clinical seminars of Wilfred Bion, which include supervisions, personal case presentations, and lectures on psychoanalytic theory, represent his initial foray into many years of work that have inspired South American analysts for nearly a half a century.The clinical and theoretical work of Bion arguably ranks rather high in the current psychoanalytic firmament-as national and international conferences convene regularly to continue discussing the contemporary relevance of his work. His work has served as a source of inspiration to contemporary psychoanalysts in all three regions of the International Psychoanalytical Assocation-Ronald Britton, Antonino Ferro, Giuseppe Civitarese, Thomas Ogden, James Grotstein, and Paolo Sandler, just to name a few. These newly discovered clinical seminars from work Bion conducted in Buenos Aires in 1968 help us to further fill out the picture of his versatile gifts. In these seminars, we find lectures on Bion's elaborations on his epistemological research-still on-going in the 1960s when he went to Buenos Aires; a lecture on the Grid and its clinical relevance.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|63 pages
Bion's Clinical Seminars
part II|17 pages
Bion's Own Analytic Case Presentation
part III|29 pages
Horacio Etchegoyen's Supervision with Bion*
chapter Sixth Seminar|13 pages
The initial phase of Mr B's psychoanalytic treatment
chapter Seventh Seminar|13 pages
Mr B's psychoanalytic treatment in the following year
part IV|40 pages
Bion's Further Supervisory Work with Other Argentinian Analysts
chapter Eighth Seminar|15 pages
An "in-the-moment" presentation of an adult analysand, all with no orienting background history—audience questions
chapter Tenth Seminar|8 pages
Bion’s Analytical Supervision: Jorge, an adolescent analysand—audience questions
chapter Eleventh Seminar|8 pages
The continuation of an adolescent case presentation—audience questions
part V|12 pages
Blon’s Dialogue with the Audience on Questions about Supervision