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This paper involves a detailed comparison between psychoanalyst W. R. Bion's theories about mental development, and postmodern theoretical physicist David Bohm's theory of the implicate order in physics. The author relates the implicate order to some fundamental aspects of human development as envisaged by Bion, including the relationship between the paranoid—schizoid and depressive positions, genesis of psychic space and time, schizophrenic thinking, psychoanalytic epistemology, and the evolution of the. thinking process. The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate the consistent theoretical isomorphy between these seemingly unrelated
Dr. Godwin is Senior Clinical Associate at the Barrington Psychiatric Center and in private practice in Los Angeles.
Acknowledgment. The author is especially indebted to Robert Gruener M.D., Avedis Panajian, Ph.D., and Jon Tabakin, M.A., each of whom reviewed various versions of this paper and offered thoughtful comments and much needed encouragement.
theorists, with the hope of forging a fertile interdisciplinary dialogue between physics and psychoanalysis.