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| Acknowledgements | xiii |
| Foreword Nicola Abel-Hirsch | xxvi |
| Introduction: Wilfred Bion - Man and Career | 1 |
| Chapter 1 Training and Orientation | 18 |
| Conceptual Clarification 1 - Intuition | 26 |
| Chapter 2 Social Fields | 30 |
| Section 1 - Psychotherapy and Field Theory | 30 |
| Conceptual Clarification 2 - Roles in a Force-Field | 34 |
| Section 2 - War Work | 36 |
| Section 3 - Tavistock Groups | 47 |
| Chapter 3 Personification | 73 |
| Section 1 - Becoming an Analyst | 74 |
| Conceptual Clarification 3 - A Phenomenology of Splitting | 82 |
| Section 2 - The Psychosis Papers | 87 |
| Conceptual Clarification 4 - Ego Functions of the Reality Principle | 88 |
| Section 3 - Schizoid Dramas | 89 |
| Chapter 4 Attacks on Reality | 108 |
| Section 1 - Envy and Environment | 108 |
| Section 2 - Key Text 1: Container-Contained | 110 |
| Chapter 5 Clinical Enquiry as Epistemology | 123 |
| Section 1 - Psychoanalysis as Science | 126 |
| Conceptual Clarification 5 - Alpha-Function and Thinking | 128 |
| Section 2 - Thinking about Thinking | 134 |
| Section 3 - Clinical Seminars in 1967-1968 | 137 |
| Chapter 6 Turmoil and Invariance | 148 |
| Section 1 - The Commentary | 149 |
| Conceptual Clarification 6 - The Invariant Thing-in-Itself | 154 |
| Section 2 - Key Text 2: Transforming the Invariant | 160 |
| Section 3 - The Psychoanalytic Invariant | 162 |
| Chapter 7 The Basic Three - Science, Aesthetics and Religion | 179 |
| Section 1 - Persisting Intuition | 182 |
| Conceptual Clarification 7 - The Deeper Levels | 188 |
| Section 2 - Ignorance and Receptivity | 190 |
| Section 3 - Intuition from a Vertex | 197 |
| Section 4 - An Aesthetic Playroom | 205 |
| Epilogue: The Clinical Journey | 222 |
| References | 229 |
| Index | 241 |
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