The Limits of Interpretation

The Limits of Interpretation opens a window onto unexplored dimensions of Wilfred Bion's thought, presenting essays that illuminate both familiar and lesser-known facets of his work.

Giuseppe Civitarese, MD, PhD, is a training and supervising analyst (SPI, APsaA, IPA). He lives in Pavia, Italy. His books include The Intimate Room: Theory and Technique of the Analytic Field; The Violence of Emotions: Bion and Post-Bion Psychoanalysis; Truth and the Unconscious; Sublime Subjects: Aesthetic Experience and Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis; and Psychoanalytic Field Theory: A Contemporary Introduction.

1. Experiences in Groups as a Key to "Late" Bion 2. The Limits of Interpretation. A Reading of Bion's "On Arrogance" 3. Invisible-Visual Hallucinations in Bion's "Attacks on Linking" 4. The Concept of Time in Bion's "A Theory of Thinking" 5. Intuition and We-ness in Bion and Post-Bionian Field Theory 6. Bion's O and His Pseudo-Mystical Path