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I initially approached this volume cum timore et tremore, with “fear and trembling,” to quote Kierkegaard, but I quickly discovered a book that, while certainly not very easy reading, permits the reader who is not particularly expert in Bion's work to gather its salient points. It also allows one to register within oneself the tonalities of the great melody that Bion composed on the human being. I think that one must accept, at any rate, not completely understanding all that Grotstein proposes and presents to the reader—or at least not managing to understand everything in the same identical manner and with the same acuity—just as happens in reading Bion's work. Even though, in presenting the book, Grotstein reports that “I have been asked to undertake the daunting task of writing a book on Bion that will introduce a distillation and synthesis of his ideas for the general public” (p. 9), I doubt that the general public could follow and completely understand him in his journey through the Bioman oeuvre.
In fact, this is a text that, beyond presenting Grotstein's point of view on Bion and elaborating his concepts, presents the ideas that the author has developed by reflecting and dreaming around Bion's teachings. The structure of the text makes it easy for the reader who wishes to dwell on individual questions or problems, since the book is organized by topic. Therefore the text does not follow a chronological plan, and does not pretend to be a biography of Bion in the manner of Bléandonu1; nor