By W. R. Bion

A dialogue of categorising the ideational context and emotional adventure that could happen in a psychoanalytic interview. The textual content goals to extend the reader's figuring out of cognition and its medical ramifications.

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Elements of Psychoanalysis

A dialogue of categorising the ideational context and emotional event which could happen in a psychoanalytic interview. The textual content goals to extend the reader's realizing of cognition and its medical ramifications.

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T h e material, so to speak, out of w h i c h this apparatus is manufactured is / . T h e material w i t h w h i c h this apparatus is designed to deal, is / . / d e v e l o p s a capacity for any one of its aspects to assume indifferently the function

56 Elements of Psycho-Analysis A n y growth of insight depends on the extent to w h i c h the patient has been forced to digest the interpretation i n order to effect the change i n his point of view. S u c h misinterpretation differs from the c o m m o n r u n o f resistances; the patient w i l l often seize on an a m b i g u ­ ity i n the analyst's phrasing or intonation to give his interpretation a slant that the analyst does not i n t e n d . T h e difference is difficult to observe because the patient w h o reverses perspective also employs the c o m m o n modes of misinterpretation sufficiently fre­ quently to obscure the more serious condition.

I t w o u l d be easy to say that the obvious thing to do w i t h thoughts is to think t h e m ; it is more difficult to decide what such a statement means i n fact. I n practice the statement becomes more meaningful w h e n i t is possible to contrast what a psychotic personality does w i t h thoughts instead of t h i n k i n g t h e m , a n d how m u c h discipline and difficulty a measure of coherent t h i n k i n g involves for anyone. I shall ignore any of the uses to w h i c h organized thought is put p a r t l y because I have already i n c l u d e d them as factors i n / - f u n c t i o n a n d p a r d y because experience i n disorders of thought show 6 1 2 1 2 B i o n , W .

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