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At the 20th Congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) in Paris, Wilfred Bion read a brief paper entitled “On Arrogance”. Although over time it became one of his most famous articles (1958), psychoanalysis has rarely felt the need to go back to it and consider its subject, and never in the breadth that Civitarese devotes to it in this essay. This is quite surprising when we think that it was through these very reflections on arrogance that Bion was prompted, in the Oedipus myth, to shift the interpretative centre of gravity away from sexuality to the relationship that man establishes with the truth. And it is perhaps all the more surprising if we consider that, in emphasising the importance of that paper for the development of his theories, he himself drew attention to its unexpressed potential (Bion [1967] 1984). These ideas were perhaps too dazzling for the era when they were conceived, some of them falling into an oblivion of the kind lamented by Tiresias who, after warning Oedipus, saying “Alas, knowing is a terrible thing if it does not help him who knows!” applies the warning to himself: “I knew this before I came: but I had forgotten it” (Sophocles 2009, 33).