ABSTRACT
Bion’s ideas are highly unique and are presented by him with such density at times that it often is difficult to capture his meaning—but that is Bion through and through. Bion’s style of writing as well as communicating—that is, answering questions at conferences—puzzled some. Bion’s writings seem to be quite understandable to some and less understandable to too many others. Reading his works and having being analysed by him suggest to me a hypothesis that derives from the above. Many US psychoanalytic institutes offer courses on Bion but often suffer from a dearth of able teachers to teach his works. Bion seems to have had to live with the advantages and disadvantages of being accorded the mantle of genius from early on in his professional career—probably because of his unique and highly idiosyncratic but plausible and confirmable observations in the study of groups and then in his observations of psychotic patients and the far-reaching conclusions he drew from these observations.
