Bion, Dreamwork and the Oneiric Dimensions of the Mind

Bion, Dreamwork and the Oneiric Dimensions of the Mind allows readers to examine one of the most significant areas of clinical psychoanalytic thinking, focusing on Bion's idiom that dreaming is the central aspect of all emotional functioning and it is a full-time ongoing psychic activity. Including chapters from leading Bionian scholars and clinicians such as Nicola Abel-Hirsch, Rudi Vermote, Anne Alvarez, Giuseppe Civitarese and Howard Levine, this book elucidates Bion's theory of the oneiric dimension and shows its importance in the development of psychoanalytic understanding of dreams. The global cohort of contributors provide a thorough and varied exploration of dreamwork alpha, nighttime dreams, transformational dreamwork, alpha function, container/contained, their manifestations and implications in the treatment situation, psychic development, and the arts (Cezanne and Frida Kahlo) and cultural surroundings. This edited collection will be of interest and value to psychoanalysts and therapists of all orientations and levels of experience who want to understand dreaming and the oneiric dimensions of the mind.

Jani Santamaría Linares is Training and Supervisor Psychoanalyst of Children, Adolescents and Adults of the Mexican Psychoanalytic Association and Director of A-Santamaría Psychoanalysis Mexico A.C. She is a member of APsA, IPA and FEPAL and is co- author of Bion Seminars at the A-Santamaria Association: Clinical and Theoretical Explorations (2024).

Introduction 1. Freud-s Dream and Bion-s Dream 2. Bion and my Patients 3. On going further to what we know 4. Dreaming, Day-Dreaming and Sensing Things Together 5. We-ness as an Expansion of Bion-s Psychoanalytic Function of Intuition 6. To Risk Sailing Westward Cathay and Thence Safety Home. The Oneiric States of Mind 7. A Dream is just a Dream 8. The Oneiric Dimensions of the Mind in the Analytic Session 9. Learning from the Experience in the Analytic Session: Dream Work- a 10. Cézanne dreams Bion 11. Oneiric Dimensions of the Mind in Frida Kahlo 12. Beatriz and the Great Mystical Circus: The Musical and Poetical Transformation of an Emotional Experience