Bion - Paper

The emotional experience of truth How do we become real? How do we manage to live what we are? How can we do it through the psychoanalytic experience? W.R. Bion tried to answer these questions throughout his life and work. The book retraces his long and fascinating human and theoretical adventure. The author, who is a psychoanalyst with a Lacanian orientation, retraces Bion's complex and rich itinerary to demonstrate the great turning point given to Freudian practice, restoring its innovative strength and the ability to inspire every psychoanalyst to reflect on their own work, beyond the school of belonging and the theoretical-clinical model adopted. With clear and understandable writing, it introduces the reader to Bion's special world, his life, his writings, which are presented step by step, in their scientific rigor and speculative creativity, starting from pioneering work with groups to the latest extraordinary elaborations on the transformative power of truth. The author immerses the reader in an original analytical experience, accompanied by personal clinical examples and contemporary Bionian literature. It brings the reader closer to that stormy emotional situation in which the analyst, for Bion, tries to "help the patient have the courage to be themselves, to have enough respect for their own personality to be that person." Bion, advancing a new concept of the unconscious and psychic reality, redefined the way of realizing listening, interpretation, and the presence of the analyst in therapy, and continuously testified to it, with modesty and authority, in sessions with his analysands, in published writings, and in seminars he held. He was not an administrator or a bureaucrat of the psychoanalytic movement: he wanted to make it progress and keep it alive for living people. He updated the psychoanalytic tool so that it is still today, as it indeed is, the way through which a person, together with another, encounters their own truth. Author: Fabio Galimberti Antonio Ferro