ABSTRACT
Whether we are talking about caregivers on the front lines, be it in emergency medicine and Critical Care or in crowded military hospitals, we must simply acknowledge the intelligence that makes survival possible in this “unimaginable time of war”, without further comment. British psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion formulates the knowledge at stake in such circumstances when, based on his experience as a veteran of the First World War, he speaks of “thoughts without a thinker”, in search of a thinker to think them. Provided that this other—for instance, an analyst—expresses his impressions in the interaction, instead of hiding behind a wall of silence and diagnoses.
