ABSTRACT
Bion’s major contributions to the clinical practice of psychoanalysis include likening the psychoanalyst’s transformations of the analysand’s experience into knowable and thinkable form to the transformations achieved by visual artists in creating their art. Bion’s insights have been developed by Julia Kristeva into an account of psychoanalysis which is akin to the Squiggle game that Winnicott played with some of his child patients. Before explaining this, I will focus on Bion’s insights, beginning with problems of non-dreaming hallucinating and with similarities between Bion’s work as an analyst and as an amateur artist.
