Author : P.C. Sandler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429910746
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Book Synopsis An Introduction to W.R. Bion's 'A Memoir of the Future' by : P.C. Sandler
Download or read book An Introduction to W.R. Bion's 'A Memoir of the Future' written by P.C. Sandler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last years of his life Bion gathered unusual manuscripts handwritten in his tidy lettering that assumed the form of a trilogy. Finely typed and edited by his dedicated wife, they were named A Memoir of the Future. Many of the themes of this book were already evident in Transformations and Attention and Interpretation. These earlier books provide many of the theories whose practical counterpart finally found a form in the trilogy: as Bion himself noted, "the criteria for a psychoanalytic paper are that it should stimulate in the reader the emotional experience that the writer intends, that its power to stimulate should be durable, and that the emotional experience thus stimulated should be an accurate representation of the psychoanalytic experience that stimulated the writer in first place." Was Bion true to his word? It is perhaps left to the reader to answer this question. The present book is an attempt to indicate the view that Bion's attempt was to present the burning flame itself - rather than presenting static photographs of the fire.