ABSTRACT
In the course of creating his metatheory for psychoanalysis, Bion, like Freud before him, had to confront the tenets of science as determined by the scientific establishment. Bion, the polymath and autodidact, summoned a significant portion of the wisdom of the Western—and perhaps even Eastern—World, infused it into psychoanalytic thinking, and rendered psychoanalysis a pragmatic practicing philosophy about the achievement and experience of intimacy and self-transcendence. Psychoanalysis does not heal the analysand. Bion alluded to this Horatian ode from time to time, principally in reference to the fate of anonymity of fetal memories. Dreams were held to be sacred: they were signifiers of divine intercourse, and it was considered blasphemy for any mortal to attend to them. In short, man’s destiny is to evolve by becoming transformed from the transcendental to the transcendent—as they pursue their destiny and suffer their fate.
