Bion's shift from writing Ps → D to writing Ps ↔ D does not provide a genuine resolution of Klein's hierarchical, linear conception of the developmental relationship between the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions. While Bion's and Britton's conception of creativity as involving cycles of disintegration followed by reintegration recapitulates valid contributions by Kris, Winnicott and Loewald, this paper calls into question the reductionistic association of the paranoid-schizoid position with fragmentation rather than order and the depressive position with order and depression.