ABSTRACT
The author goes through some of the Bionian topics susceptible to misunderstanding. Bion’s ironic and anti-dogmatic style of the Seminars is attractive precisely because of its transgressive and innovative tone, but it sometimes lends itself to being confused. Possible misunderstandings in the comprehension of intuition, and of the prior mental state “without memory or desire”, may be due to not taking sufficiently into consideration a fundamental aspect of the Bionian vertex for approaching psychic reality: binocular vision. Hence, we must reconcile the rigorous Bion of his writings with the “open” and somewhat irreverent of his seminars. In other words, rigorous discipline and openness to the new are in interaction and are also the basis of any scientific attitude. This is what underlies the topic “without memory or desire”, as well as the rest of his work. Could we say that this double attitude, disciplined on the one hand (especially in his writings) and alternating with an irreverent openness (especially in his seminars) on the other, corresponds to the basic attitude of a binocular vision?
