ABSTRACT

The complexity of Kleinian theory, enriched with Bion’s collaborations, stimulates us to search for paths that allow us to diagnose and orient clinical practice without getting lost in the denseness of the human forest. Hope lies in that

The further the analysis progresses—says Bion, 1970, p. 59—the more the psychoanalyst and the analysand achieve a state in which both contemplate the irreducible minimum that is the patient. (This irreducible minimum is incurable because what is seen is that without which the patient would not be the patient.)