Conclusion

This chapter follows Wilfred R. Bion's quest to discover the essence of psychoanalysis. The main caesura is the leap from T(K) to T(O), which became a kind of dual track; both perspectives on psychic change coexist and touch at the caesura. While looking at transformations, Bion focused more and more on beta-elements, the matrix, the emmatures, the hallucinatory layer, the Alpheus, O — which all point at the same formless, infinite, unknown, noumena. Bion used the metaphor of looking from the other side of Picasso's glass paintings. Bion's unique theoretical background and life experiences allowed him to develop his tolerance of solitude, mental pain, growing, truth, integrity and remoteness in his isolation. It further played an important role in his confrontation with personal misfortune and the Great War — he met unique individuals like Trotter, Samuel Beckett, John Rickman, Paton and Klein who provided him with the building blocks for his original meta-theories that we can apply in many fields.