Book description
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 provide emotional
understanding to Bion's theoretical ideas, Dr Reiner uses examples of
artists, poets, writers, theologians, and philosophers, including Rilke,
Cummings, Shakespeare, Beckett, and Nietzsche, to illustrate these
psychoanalytic concepts. She also presents detailed clinical examples of
patient's dreams to explore the obstacles to these states of being, as
well as how to work clinically to develop access to these creative
states.
