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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461194303321

Autore

Reiner Annie

Titolo

Bion and being [[electronic resource] ] : passion and the creative mind / / Annie Reiner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Karnac, 2012

ISBN

0-429-47244-7

1-280-49519-7

9786613590428

1-84940-982-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Disciplina

131.34

150.1952

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysts - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE "O": Bion's "truth instinct"; CHAPTER TWO Self and other: passion and play in analysis and art; CHAPTER THREE The development of language; CHAPTER FOUR "A rose is a rose is a rose . . .": the power and limits of language; CHAPTER FIVE "O": the spiritual aspect of being; CHAPTER SIX The language of being and mental wholeness; CHAPTER SEVEN Being and non-being: a clinical view; CHAPTER EIGHT Duality and the myth of Sisyphus: a clinical exploration; CHAPTER NINE Evolving states of wholeness and being

CHAPTER TEN Summary and conclusionsREFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

With his concept of ""O,"" Wilfred Bion provided a new psychoanalytic space in which to explore the mind.  Dr Annie Reiner's new book, Bion and Being: Passion and the Creative Mind, examines the similarities between this psychoanalytic space and the artist's creative sensibility, as well as mystical and religious states. This most mysterious and revolutionary of Bion's analytic ideas reflects what is essentially a state of being, an experience of mental integrity and union between



emotional and rational functions of the mind which is the basis of thinking and creativity.  In an effort to provi