Bion’s Vertices: On Truth and Lies is divided into three parts which investigate the truth/lie domain, emotional change and growth, and creativity in relation to truth and lies, and show its relevance in clinical practice. The wide-ranging discussions include chapters on aesthetic processes in poetry and psychoanalytic thought, knowledge, representation, misunderstandings, chaos, perversions, propaganda, the analyst's mind, the protective function of lying, and racialisation in relational context.
This is a must-read book for all those with an interest in Bion and the application of his theory to contemporary thought and practice.
Contents
Preface to the book series - Contemporary Bion
Tomasz Fortuna
Preface to first edition
Paulo Cesar Sandler
Introduction
Tomasz Fortuna
I. Enquiry into the truth/lie domain
CHAPTER ONE
The forms of things unknown: aesthetic processes in poetry and psychoanalytic thought
Margot Waddell
CHAPTER TWO
Knowledge and its pretenders: Bion’s contribution to knowledge and thought
David Bell
CHAPTER THREE
The psychoanalyst’s toolbox: an apprentice in the Bion’s and Meltzer’s ateliers
Carlos Tabbia
CHAPTER FOUR
Representation and truth
R. D. Hinshelwood
CHAPTER FIVE
Bion’s two principles of mental functioning
Robert Caper
II. Change, growth, creativity and their opposites
CHAPTER SIX
Chaos: destruction or creation?
Ron Britton
CHAPTER SEVEN
Catastrophic Change: container – contained ♀♂, the shape of what we experience … and beyond
Denis Flynn
CHAPTER EIGHT
Bion: Lies and Perversion of Truth
Dimitris-James Jackson
CHAPTER NINE
Reaching the ineffable
Tomasz Fortuna
CHAPTER TEN
Thinking about truth, lies and propaganda
Antonia Grimalt
III. Clinical context/dialogue
CHAPTER ELEVEN
“Truth shall spring out of the earth…”: The analyst as gatherer of sense impressions
Avner Bergstein
CHAPTER TWELVE
What might be in so close that as psychoanalysts we miss it?
Nicola Abel-Hirsch
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
The analyst’s state of mind and growth in the psychoanalytic process
Alberto Hahn
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
A story that could never be told
Monica Horovitz
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Truth and lies: perversion of truth and the disruption of passion
Judy Eekhoff
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
A certain praise for lying
Roosevelt Cassorla
Index
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