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Dear Sirs,
In my recently published paper, you quote me mentioning an ‘evenly suspended attention’ but in it I actually speak of ‘an evenly suspended mind’, which I believe is a much stronger and more difficult attitude to achieve and maintain. In a previous paper of mine (de Bianchedi, 1991), I develop this idea more fully. By the way, I obviously confirm your quotations from Bion (1992), especially the emphasis placed by him and you (and me as well), on the opacities which obstruct intuition, which is so basic in our mental work when we use the psychoanalytic function of the personality.
As to phenomenology, I am not too familiar with the different meanings of the term, nor of Husserl's concepts, and therefore cannot speak about the similarity you mention between the two approaches. Thank your for showing me the importance of intuition in phenomenology, and the possibility of connecting both positions (obviously including psychoanalysis).