Galileo Galilei, by Bertolt Brecht, as a metaphor for the continuous transformational movement of thought

The author uses the genesis of the conception of Bertolt Brecht’s play Galileo Galilei to metaphorize creative, moving, contradictory, paradoxical thought, determined largely by powerful emotional factors. The Theory of Transformations, a psychoanalytic model proposed by Bion (1963), is called on to better understand the transformation, fundamental and defining operation of the psyche, mental life, the possibility of thinking and creating, through the binomials PS< –>D (balance between the schizo-paranoid and depressive positions) and (♀♂) (continent and content relationship), as well as the bonds L (love), H (hate), K (knowledge), O (ultimate truth).The term ‘bond’ designates an emotional experience by which two people or two parts of the same person are related to each other. We will also address the issue of the primacy of affects over thoughts.