ABSTRACT
In this supervision, Wilfred Bion makes some explicit theoretical proposals about how he understands the meaning of "the personality". And also, he attempts to transform the group discussion into an illustration of how analytic listening depends upon one's own personality. This chapter focuses upon the author's most impressed moments in the supervision because of their direct and close connection with the human personality. It then discusses the models of bi-personal relation that allow analysts to shift from one model to the other depending on their capacity to contain or not contain what they are confronted with in the session. It further points out that the junction and synthesis of the two sources that verbal source and visual perception are raises a current and quite complex problem. This causes analysts to wonder how, in the state of being awake and dealing with this complexity, each one of them perceives themselves.
