ABSTRACT
Bion has explicitly developed a method of negation designed to free psychoanalytic observation from its reliance on sensory and conceptual-verbal faculties, as almost exclusive means for grasping mental reality. His method involves constant efforts by the analyst’s consciousness to negate its reliance on these faculties, to “make room” for intuition. Clinical implications: tuning the mind not to be trapped in rigid memories. Evolution precedes interpretation: Interpretation is the verbal expression of what is revealed through extensive intuitive listening to evolution. The notion of “being patient” captures in a unified manner the patience, the suffering, and the patient. Intuiting evolution is thus an often-unsettling emotional journey towards interpretation, which entails unconscious psychic work and requires the analytic pair to oscillate between positions.
