ABSTRACT
“Now I would use as a model the diamond cutter’s method of cutting a stone so that a ray of light entering the stone is reflected back by the same path in such a way that the light is augmented-the same ‘free association’ is reflected back by the same path, but with augmented ‘brilliance’. So the patient is able to see his ‘reflection’, only more clearly than he can see his personality as expressed by himself alone (i.e. without an analyst).” (A note by W. R. Bion to D. Meltzer, quoted in 1986b, p. 121)
