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When the world was tussling between known and unknown, Bion introduced a third, unknowable. Interestingly, Bion was born in India and his theorization of “O” had similarities with the concept of Sthitpragya from the Bhagavad Gita, which is being untroubled by sorrows, desires and pleasures (Gairola & Mishra, 2022). How it impacted psychoanalysis is significant. Perhaps, this paper is written in a state of O, without memory and without desire (Bion, 1991). Bion's experience in treating individuals with psychosis is reflected in his various writings, which consist of brief clinical vignettes (Bion, 1992, 1994, 2005). These vignettes are not lengthy and comprehensive. However, Bion has a way of communicating to the reader through these fragmentary vignettes the importance of containing them. As Bion attributes elements of linking as the health of the mind, this paper attempts to link Bion's earlier and later clinical writings. Intuition is understood as a gateway for “unrepressed unconscious experience” (p. 247). Bion (1970) believed that intuition was a gateway to the unconscious and that truth exists whether it is discovered or not. In the same manner, the author understands intuition as that which exists.
The author offers a view of psychoanalytic intuition as a fluid and constantly evolving process that is crucial to the work of the analyst. The idea is that the analyst must cultivate an open, non-prejudiced state of mind in order to be receptive to the fragmented emotional experiences of the patient and themselves. This is described as capturing the “fallout” (p. 253) of emotional experience, which is dispersed and intangible but can be perceived through sense impressions. The author notes that these sense impressions are embodied in various forms, but are ultimately apprehended through the meaning attributed to them. From a psychoanalytic perspective, this viewpoint aligns with the idea that unconscious processes are constantly in motion and that the analyst's rol