ABSTRACT
In the context of the disagreements within the British Psychoanalytical Society of an ‘innateness’ of aggression, Bion evolved his understanding of the essentially self-destructive quality of psychotic states, and especially the destruction of the internal reality of thought. He polarised this aggression with the intense demand for a primitive need for a containing object, and in the process he distinguished for the Klein Group a communicative form of projective identification.
