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      The Courage of Simplicity
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      Essential Ideas in the Work of W. R. Bion

      The Courage of Simplicity

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      The Courage of Simplicity book

      Essential Ideas in the Work of W. R. Bion
      ByHanni Biran
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2015
      eBook Published 23 May 2019
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429481383
      Pages 288
      eBook ISBN 9780429481383
      Subjects Behavioral Sciences
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      Biran, H. (2015). The Courage of Simplicity: Essential Ideas in the Work of W. R. Bion (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429481383

      ABSTRACT

      Relying on and developing the ideas of W.R. Bion, this book observes psychoanalytic thinking through three prisms: person, group and society. The book is divided into four sections. The first revolves around the individual. Clinical in its emphasis, it discusses Bion's theory of thinking, his reading of the Oedipus myth and his notion of the "selected fact". These are illustrated by vignettes highlighting the emotional aspect of thinking. The second discusses the small group and its unconscious processes. Although Bion's paradigms have greatly influenced psychoanalytic conceptions of small group processes, this section integrates the thinking of Bion with that of Klein, Foulkes, Turquet, Lawrence and Hopper. The third, focusing on the feelings of despair and helplessness in the face of repetitive, unending war, is inspired by the author's life in Israel. It relates to society at large and the traumatic history of the Jewish people: the Holocaust is still inscribed in the Israeli social-unconscious and this social trauma has considerable impact on the Jewish-Arab conflict.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter

      Introduction

      part 1|46 pages

      Integrative Concepts

      chapter 1|15 pages

      The concepts of the container and contained in Bion’s thought

      chapter 2|13 pages

      The selected fact

      chapter 3|14 pages

      The caesura

      part 2|30 pages

      Person

      chapter 4|17 pages

      How thoughts are born in light of Bionian theory

      chapter 5|10 pages

      Looking at the myth of Oedipus following Bion

      part 3|78 pages

      Group

      chapter 6|15 pages

      An introduction to Bion’s contribution to group dynamics

      chapter 7|21 pages

      Myths, memories, and roles: how they live again in the group process

      chapter 8|25 pages

      Bion’s links: how they are manifested in the Foulkesian matrix

      chapter 9|12 pages

      The “untouchable”: racism and prejudice in the analytic group

      part 4|91 pages

      Society

      chapter 10|17 pages

      The difficulty of channelling rage into dialogue

      chapter 11|13 pages

      From possessing to belonging

      chapter 12|13 pages

      The social unconscious and its manifestation in the analytic group

      chapter 13|11 pages

      A boy is torn between two realities: looking at his biography in the light of the social unconscious

      chapter 14|16 pages

      The unconscious emergence of identity

      chapter 15|15 pages

      Epilogue

      Some selected facts of my biography
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