Bion and Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Reading A Memoir of the Future
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-03885-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 365 g

Reihe: Psychoanalytic Field Theory Book Series

This book examines the importance and continued relevance of A Memoir of the Future in understanding and applying Bion’s work to contemporary psychoanalysis. Bion continued to innovate throughout his life, but the Memoir has been largely overlooked.

Focusing on A Memoir of the Future is not only of deep interest in terms of the author’s biography, or even only in function of a better understanding of his theoretical concepts, but can also be considered, for all intents and purposes, the final chapter of an ingenious creative enterprise While by some it was thought as the evidence of Bion’s presumed senility, this book challenges that perspective, arguing that it represents the last challenge he issued to the psychoanalytic Establishment. In each chapter, the authors explore this notion that A Memoir forms an essential part of Bion’s theory, and that in it he establishes a new ‘aesthetic’ psychoanalytic paradigm.

With an international list of distinguished authors, this is a key book for any analysts interested in a comprehensive understanding of Bion’s work.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Civitarese, Giuseppe

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: GIUSEPPE CIVITARESE

- Why Bion? Why now? Novel forms and the mystical quest LISSA WEINSTEIN

- "Psychoanalysis, I believe" in Wonderland. Reading and literature in A Memoir of the Future SARA BOFFITO

- Bion and the apes: The bridging problem of A Memoir of the Future BENJAMIN H. OGDEN

- A Memoir of the Future and Memoir of the Numinous MAURO MANICA

- A Memoir of the Future and the defence against knowledge ANTONINO FERRO

- Wilfred’s Razor: A reading of W.R. Bion’s A Memoir of the Future GIOVANNI FORESTI

7. Memories of the future, realisations in the present. The oneiric destiny of pre-conceptions which turn up in the minds of dreamers VIOLET PIETRANTONI

8. The ineffable AVNER BERGSTEIN

9. Psychoanalysis "at the mind's limits": Trauma, history, and paronomasia as "a flower of language" in A memoir of the Future CLARA MUCCI

10. The "Memoir" experienced from the standpoint of contemporary art: A chronicle of a death foretold ADELA ABELLA

11. Reflections on ‘Nonsense’ in A Memoir of the Future DUNCAN CARTWRIGHT

Über Autor(innen)

Giuseppe Civitarese, psychiatrist, PhD in psychiatry and relational sciences, is a training and supervising analyst in the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI), and a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) and of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). Previous work includes, The Intimate Room: Theory and Technique of the Analytic Field, The Violence of Emotions: Bion and post-Bionian Psychoanalysis, Truth and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis and, with co-author Howard Levine ,The W. R. Bion Tradition Lines of Development - Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades.