The issue of how W.R. Bion evolved his views on the analyst's deployment of clinical intuition is here chronologically and thematically contextualized (1935–1974). Among the sources of how Bion initially came to this topic are C.G. Jung's Tavistock Lectures of 1935, where Bion first heard of Jung's mature theories on intuition. The author traces its subsequent history through the evolution of Bion's work as a Kleinian psychoanalyst in the post-World War II period, concentrating on his views on intuition during the epistemological period of the 1960s as well as his clinical seminars between 1967 and 1973.

In 1974, Bion returned to Jung's work, interesting himself in Jung's dreams and other early psychological experiences. With his own mature theories and clinical experience in hand, he personally annotated a copy of C.G. Jung's autobiography, ‘Memories, Dreams and Reflections.’ A thorough study of Bion's 1974 unpublished marginalia highlights his special interest in intuiting what directly disturbed Jung's psychological experience, along with another interest he shared with Jung-the psychological significance in the writings of Christian mystics. More particularly, the author maintains that Bion's mature ideas about clinical intuition need to be also considered in light of Jung's personal and analytical writings.