Encountering and exploring the ultimate reality "O": A review of Bion's clinical and exploratory tools

publisher奈良It is widely believed that Bion is one of the most influential psychoanalyst after Melanie Klein. We have inherited from him a great amount of stimulating and provocative ideas. Those ideas have now gone beyond the narrow borders of psychoanalysis and are now used even by psychologists and psychotherapists who are not affiliated with any psychoanalytic school. Some reviewers of Bion's work have suggested that Bion's legacy can be divided into theoretical and clinical concepts or tools. Although Bion's tools are widely referred to, they are still not correctly understood. Therefore,in the present article,I have tried to review those tools confining myself to the most principal ones,those which Bion regarded as indispensable for any investigation of the object of psychoanalysis,O,the ultimate truth of the session. I discuss,among others,Bion's idea of a mystic either did not go beyond a superficial reading of his works,or they have failed to understand their real meaning. Bion borrowed many concepts from not only scientific fields,but also from non-scientific fields,and used them as mere tools and models(not theories)which can be discaeded whenever they are no more useful. To those critics Bion would answered that it is not psychoanalysis he advocates that is not scientific,but it is rather science that is too narrow to deal with the object of psychoanalysis