Bion, Intuition and the Expansion of Psychoanalytic Theory

Bion, Intuition and the Expansion of Psychoanalytic Theory illuminates how Bion's work on intuition has changed the landscape of contemporary psychoanalysis through his understanding of its supra-scientific and non-sub-scientific condition. Based on the work of the biannual Bion conference, this book includes contributions from the most eminent voices on Bion's work. The global cohort of contributors in this volume examine topics such as dream work, the Infinite Unconscious, the Spectral model of the mind, the realm of the minus and observation and intuition. Each chapter explores different elements arising from Bion's insistence on learning from experience and establishing the difference between knowing and becoming as an experiential process of the mind as a container in relation to its contents of sensations, feelings, dreams and thoughts. This book will be of key interest to analysts and analytic therapists of all schools and is an essential resource for those that follow the work of Bion.

Antònia Grimalt, M.D., is a training and supervising analyst for the Spanish Society (SEP-IPA) and the Spanish Federation of Associations of Psychotherapists (FEAP), as well as a child and adolescent training analyst for the former Hans Groen Prakken Institute (EPI). She is former Chair of the Forum for Child Psychoanalysis (FEP) and is a member of the Ed. Monografies de Psicoanàlisi i Psicoteràpia. She has taught on the works of Klein and Bion at multiple universities and has edited works on Bion, Pere Folch, Matte Blanco and Ricardo Lombardi in both Spanish and Catalan. In 2020, she chaired the International Bion Meeting in Barcelona.

Introduction First Part PART 1: Intuition... beyond 1. Tribute to Pere Folch 2. A philosopher's perspective on intuition: "intuition and the Chinese room" 3. Music. Deep unconscious and intuition PART 2: Wanderer there is no path... the path is made by walking 4. Intuition in a spectral model of the mind: on caesuras, bridges, and other crossings 5. Apocalypse - revelation. The ways of intuition 6. Psychoanalytic intuition in dream and waking life. Their relations to caesura, imagination, and language of achievement PART 3: Intuition... a matter of two 7. Intuition and science 8. Mystic intuition and the language of dreams 9. A thought without a thinker: intuition, negative capability, and psychoanalytic function of the personality: intuition: a memoir of the future? Second Part 10. Intuition, construction and representation 11. Intuition in Bion. Between search for invariants and creative emergence 12. Bion and the infinite unconscious - an intuitive science 13. Observation and intuition in psychoanalysis 14. Intuition in Bion's colloquial words (supervisions in Brazil, 1973-1978) 15. What is your name? The realm of Minus, half a century later