Time and the Unconscious: Daring and Creativity in Wilfred R. Bion

Author:   Goriano Rugi
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032658346


Pages:   214
Publication Date:   06 August 2024
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Bion’s unfashionable thought is a challenge for our times in which anaesthesia and mass thinking prevail. The themes this book addresses are time and the unconscious. In the present/past, the here and now reveals its relationship with the unredeemable time, which conditions our behaviour and is at the root of a state of hallucinosis in the form of a short-sighted view that is distorted by deep-seated wounds. This book also highlights the resonances with contemporary epistemology and physics that underlie the new paradigm of psychoanalytic field theory. The topic of the unconscious raises questions about its origin and the difference between the Bionian and the Freudian unconscious. In Bion we see an evolutionary, process character emerge, with a double movement of repetition and expansion within a single system in unstable equilibrium, for which there is no conscious feeling that does not also carry with it the shadow of the unconscious. Drawing on psychoanalytic and philosophical concepts this book is essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, philosophers and anyone who wishes to understand more fully what it means to be human.

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Author:   Goriano Rugi
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.444kg
ISBN:  

9781032658346


ISBN 10:   1032658347
Pages:   214
Publication Date:   06 August 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Why does one choose a theory? First Part: Present/Past 1. Inaccessible states of the mind 2. The inaccessible and the uncontainable in the clinic 3. Recognising unrepresentable pain 4. Time and Space. Walking across the Time, between Freud and Bion 5. Stray thoughts. Philosophy and Neurobiology in dialogue with Bion's theory of time and thinking Second Part: Conscious/Unconscious 1. The problem of the Bionian Unconscious 2. (Mythical) origins of the Unconscious 3. Representation (Vortsellung) and Presentation (Darstellung) 4. Intuition and reality of O 5. At-one-ment, Atonement, Incarnation

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‘For a long time, Wilfred Bion's thinking was considered eccentric, even foreign or paradoxical, in comparison with that of classic psychoanalysis, or it has been used in a sloganistic manner by extracting the most original concepts and turning them into catchwords that are incredibily distant from his initial communicative intentions. Rugi manages to bring him back into the scene by clarifying the origins, which concern bionian’s complete production in its entirety, and relating it in a consistent and careful manner to that of Freud’s. The result is a book that is both an excavating and an opening, highly useful and indispensable “Memory for the Future.”' Lorena Preta, is an ordinary member of the SPI and the IPA, head of the international research group Geographies of Psychoanalysis, and former director of the magazine Psiche and of Spoleto Scienza. ‘Rugi approaches the concepts of Time and the Unconscious through his own process of dreaming Bion’s thinking. He aims to make it accessible not only to specialists, but also to a wider audience. He invites us to find out about the internal coherence in the unexpected continuity between the earliest insights into groups, and the latest thoughts on factual transformations. This exploration does not always remain static, but turns on itself; expanding, specifying, and delineating from different points. Rugi’s description of Bion clinical material provokes a process of identification and the passion of discovery.' Antònia Grimalt, M.D., is a training and supervising analyst for the Spanish Society (SEP-IPA), editor of Bion, Intuition and the expansion of psychoanalytic theory and Bion and Intuition in the clinical setting, by Routledge. ‘A timely and valuable text as through two fundamental themes of psychoanalysis, time and the unconscious, it clarifies the Freudian roots of Wilfred R. Bion's thinking, and highlights the profound differences and the richness of a new paradigm that is still evolving.' Sarantis Thanopulos, ordinary member of the SPI with training functions, is the current President of the SPI.


‘For a long time, Wilfred Bion's thinking was considered eccentric, even foreign or paradoxical, in comparison with that of classic psychoanalysis, or it has been used in a sloganistic manner by extracting the most original concepts and turning them into catchwords that are incredibily distant from his initial communicative intentions. Rugi manages to bring him back into the scene by clarifying the origins, which concern bionian’s complete production in its entirety, and relating it in a consistent and careful manner to that of Freud’s. The result is a book that is both an excavating and an opening, highly useful and indispensable “Memory for the Future.”' Lorena Preta, is an ordinary member of the SPI and the IPA, head of the international research group Geographies of Psychoanalysis, and former director of the magazine Psiche and of Spoleto Scienza ‘Rugi approaches the concepts of Time and the Unconscious through his own process of dreaming Bion’s thinking. He aims to make it accessible not only to specialists, but also to a wider audience. He invites us to find out about the internal coherence in the unexpected continuity between the earliest insights into groups, and the latest thoughts on factual transformations. This exploration does not always remain static, but turns on itself; expanding, specifying, and delineating from different points. Rugi’s description of Bion clinical material provokes a process of identification and the passion of discovery.' Antònia Grimalt, M.D., is a training and supervising analyst for the Spanish Society (SEP-IPA), editor of Bion, Intuition and the expansion of psychoanalytic theory and Bion and Intuition in the clinical setting, by Routledge ‘A timely and valuable text as through two fundamental themes of psychoanalysis, time and the unconscious, it clarifies the Freudian roots of Wilfred R. Bion's thinking, and highlights the profound differences and the richness of a new paradigm that is still evolving.' Sarantis Thanopulos, ordinary member of the SPI with training functions, is the current President of the SPI


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Goriano Rugi, M.D., psychiatrist, psychotherapist, is a member and training analyst of the Italian Institute of Group Psychoanalysis (I.I.P.G. IIPG). He teaches at the I.I.P.G. School of Specialisation in Milan and at the European Research Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Padua. He is a trainer and supervisor at various institutions. He lives and works in Verona. His best-known works are Transformations of Pain (2015), Diagnosis and Mental Disorders (2018) and Time and the Unconscious (2023), Milan, FrancoAngeli.

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