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Bion's Vertices: On Truth and Lies is the inaugural book of the Contemporary Bion series. It raises many key questions, such as: What is the place of truth and lies in psychoanalytic discourse? What are the consequences in terms of collusion and communication? How can a 'lie' carry a meaning? The book features penetrating insights from Nicola Abel-Hirsch, Joseph Aguayo, David Bell, Avner Bergstein, Ronald Britton, Robert Caper, Roosevelt Cassorla, Judy K. Eekhoff, Denis Flynn, Tomasz Fortuna, Antònia Grimalt, Alberto Hahn, R. D. Hinshelwood, Monica Horovitz, Dimitris J. Jackson, Paulo Cesar Sandler, Carlos Tabbia, and Margot Waddell. Their inspiration and starting point is Bion and his work but the vertices are dynamic and involve free expression of their personal perspectives, communication styles, and approaches, including Freudian, Kleinian, mathematical, philosophical, scientific, and poetic.
Their chapters are divided into three parts, which investigate the truth/lie domain, emotional change and growth, and creativity in relation to truth and lies. The wide-ranging discussions include chapters on aesthetic processes in poetry and psychoanalytic thought, the protective function of lying, misunderstandings, chaos, the analyst's mind, knowledge, representation, perversions, and propaganda. These powerful contributions are essential reading for practising clinicians, academics, and students.
Contents
Acknowledgements
About the editor and contributors
Series editor's preface by Tomasz Fortuna
Foreword by Joseph Aguayo
Introduction by Tomasz Fortuna
Part I - Enquiry into the truth/lie domain
1. "The forms of things unknown": Aesthetic processes in poetry and psychoanalytic thought
Margot Waddell
2. Knowledge and its pretenders: Bion's contribution to knowledge and thought
David Bell
3. Representation and truth
R. D. Hinshelwood
4. Bion's two principles of mental functioning
Robert Caper
5. A certain praise for lying
Roosevelt M. S. Cassorla
Part II - Change, growth, creativity, and their opposites
6. Chaos: Destruction or creation?
Ronald Britton
7. Reaching the ineffable: On emotion, intuition, and creativity in psychoanalytic encounter
Tomasz Fortuna
8. Catastrophic change: Container-contained, the shape of what we experience ... and beyond
Denis Flynn
9. Bion: Lies and perversion of truth
Dimitris J. Jackson
10. Thinking about truth, lies, and propaganda
Antònia Grimalt
Part III - Clinical conversations
11. "Truth shall spring out of the earth ...": The analyst as gatherer of sense impressions
Avner Bergstein
12. What might be in so close that as psychoanalysts we miss it?
Nicola Abel-Hirsch
13. The analyst's state of mind and growth in the psychoanalytical process
Alberto Hahn
14. A story that could never be told: Transference and truth
Monica Horovitz
15. Truth and lies: The perversion of truth and the disruption of passion
Judy K. Eekhoff
16. The psychoanalyst's toolbox: An apprentice in Bion's and Meltzer's ateliers
Carlos Tabbia
Afterword
Paulo Cesar Sandler
Index
