British Object Relations
November 1, 2024 @ 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm, Classroom One
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Third Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2024-25, Fall Term — Fridays, 1:45-3:15pm
Matthew Brooks, LICSW, FIPA
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November 1, 2024 — Bion
[55 pages]
Wilfred Bion, analyzed by Klein, expanded on many of her ideas, especially about projective identification and psychosis. He developed his own language and theories about thinking and feeling. In this selection of Bion’s papers, we will encounter containment, alpha functions and beta elements, nameless dread, and bizarre objects. Another major contribution we will find is his idea of the link between internal objects (the emotional quality of relatedness), as opposed to the quality of objects or part-objects themselves. His emphasis on processes of thinking and dreaming, instead of on the symbolic content of thought and phantasy, de-emphasizes the body-based focus of Klein. It shifts analysis towards an experience of two minds mentalizing together in the interest of truth and growth.
Joseph Aguayo, a Los Angeles-based analyst, is one of the principal living scholars of Bion, Winnicott, and their contemporaries. Aguayo’s 2017 book review of Bion’s collected works, edited and published in 2014, is a useful, detailed survey of Bion’s career and the evolution of his ideas.
- Bion, W.R. (1957). On Arrogance.
- Bion, W.R. (1959). Attacks on Linking.
- Bion, W.R. (1962). A Theory of Thinking.
Bion, W.R. (1967). Second Thoughts: Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis. pp.65-119.
Optional Reading
Aguayo, J. (2017). Review of: The Complete Works of W. R. Bion, Int J Psychoanalysis, 98(1), 221-243.
