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| Preface | xv |
| Acknowledgements and Permissions | xvii |
| Introduction | 1 |
| Part I: Papers | |
| Chapter 1 The Absent Object | 19 |
| Chapter 2 Interminably a Patient: A Discussion of ‘Expiation as a Defense,’ by Ruth Riesenberg Malcolm | 36 |
| Chapter 3 A Clinical Study of a Defensive Organisation | 36 |
| Chapter 4 A Commemorative Essay on W. R. Bion's Theory of Thinking | 55 |
| Chapter 5 Words and Working Through | 69 |
| Chapter 6 A 3½-Year-Old Boy's Melancholic Identification with an Original Object | 84 |
| Chapter 7 The Invisible Oedipus Complex | 95 |
| Chapter 8 Seeing with Meaning and Emotion | 111 |
| Chapter 9 Can a Liar be Psychoanalysed? | 118 |
| Chapter 10 Enclaves and Excursions | 133 |
| Chapter 11 Psychosis: Not Thinking in a Bizarre World | 147 |
| Chapter 12 What is a Clinical Fact? | 162 |
| Chapter 13 Relating to the Superego | 176 |
| Chapter 14 Dreaming and Not Dreaming | 190 |
| Chapter 15 A Projective Identification with Frankenstein: Some Questions about Psychic Limits | 201 |
| Chapter 16 Whose Bion? | 215 |
| Chapter 17 Mental Connectedness | 222 |
| Chapter 18 Intrusions | 232 |
| Chapter 19 On Gratitude | 246 |
| Chapter 20 Where is Here? When is Now? | 259 |
| Part II: Reviews | |
| Chapter 21 Review of Phyliss Grosskurth, Melanie Klein: her World and her Work | 273 |
| Chapter 22 Review of Herbert Rosenfeld, Impasse and Interpretation | 283 |
| Chapter 23 Review of Gérard Bléandonu, Wilfred Bion: his Life and Work 1897-1979 | 287 |
| Chapter 24 Review of The Dead Mother: the Work of André Green, Edited by Gregorio Kohon | 293 |
| Bibliography | 299 |