Winnicott’s Letter to Bion presents reflections on a fascinating moment in the history of psychoanalytic thinking.
Donald Winnicott’s letter, sent on October 5, 1967, and conveying thoughts about two of Wilfred Bion’s papers, never received a response. In this book international contributors elaborate on the contents of the letter, overlapping and divergent projects of the two psychoanalysts, and the meaning of Bion’s silence. The chapters consider topics including the historical context of their work, their focuses on play and reverie, and the question of the sensuous.
Winnicott’s Letter to Bion will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training, and to historians of psychoanalysis.
Series editor’s Foreword
Foreword
Nicola Abel-Hirsch, Bion’s Letter
Leslie Caldwell, Imagining Engagement
Giuseppe Civitarese, Melanie Klein would not allow this: Winnicott’s Shadowboxing in his letter to Bion, October 5, 1967
Steven H. Cooper, Winnicott’s Paradox: Being With and Without Memory and Desire
Paulo Fabozzi, Winnicott’s Research: Between Parallel Convergences and Uniqueness
Jack Foehl, Pluperfect Errands in the Controversial Discussions of Bion
Peter Goldberg, ‘On the question of the sensuous in Winnicott/Bion
Robert D. Hinshelwood, Winnicott to Bion – Reflections on Winnicott’s Letter
Christopher Lovett, On Not Playing with Winnicott: A Not-So-Curious Case of Non-Communication
Mauro Manica, An oracle (perhaps a miracle) at the British Psychoanalytical Society: Winnicott’s Letter to Bion of 5 October 1967
Elena Molinari, Reading what is not in a book: Dreaming and playing with words
Michael Parsons, What Life Itself is About
Bruce Reis, Winnicott and Bion: Communicating and Not Communicating
Steve Seligman, ‘Holding and Containing: Winnicott, Bion and Klein on Infancy and the Infantile
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