By Ian Miller, Kay Souter
This e-book makes a speciality of Samuel Beckett’s psychoanalytic psychotherapy with W. R. Bion as a relevant element either one of Beckett’s and Bion’s radical modifications of literature and psychoanalysis. the new book of Beckett’s correspondence in the course of the interval of his psychotherapy with Bion offers a foundation for an inventive reconstruction of this psychotherapy, culminating with Bion’s well-known invitation to his sufferer to dinner and a lecture through C.G. Jung. Following from the process this psychotherapy, Miller and Souter hint the improvement of Beckett’s radical use of medical psychoanalytic procedure in his writing, suggesting the advance inside of his characters of a literary-analytic operating via of transference to an idealized auditor identified through quite a few names, it appears in line with Bion. Miller and Souter hyperlink this pursuit to Beckett’s leap forward from prose to drama, because the psychology of projective identity is reworked to actual enactment. in addition they find Bion’s reminiscence and re-working of his medical touch with Beckett, who figures because the 'patient zero' of Bion’s pioneering postmodern psychoanalytic scientific theories.
This studying of Beckett and Bion isn't really easily interpretive yet a development that has arisen from a truly dynamic technique, choked with speculation and shock. faraway from negating different readings, it provides density to the textured realizing of those fantastic thinkers, every one officially in several traces of labor yet joined via what Bion himself may name a 'reciprocal perception' of psychoanalysis. it's reciprocal simply because Beckett reworked psychoanalytic pondering right into a literary style whereas Bion reworked psychoanalytic pondering into approach figuring out. each one applied an identical item, yet with assorted attentions to diversified ends. The constitution of the ebook is split into elements. half I starts off with a biographical advent of Beckett and encompasses a dialogue of Beckett’s early metapsychological monograph, Proust. It offers Beckett’s years in psychotherapy, among 1934 and 193, and addresses the institutional contexts within which this psychotherapy came about, and likewise discusses of Wilfred Bion’s heritage and heritage. half II addresses Beckett’s radical use of unfastened organization as a literary shape and examines Beckett’s Novellas, the Trilogy, and his artistic transition from prose to drama. It concludes with an exploration of Bion’s theoretical use of his paintings with Beckett.
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