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I am completely unable to understand W. R. Bion's paper, “Notes on Memory and Desire.”
Dr. Bion starts by reminding us that memory is often distorted by desire. This is self-evident, but Dr. Bion advises us to eschew memory and desire entirely, even to the point of the analyst's not remembering the preceding session. On the other hand, he makes a great point of “intuiting” the evolution of the patient's emotional experience.
But what is evolution unless it occurs in time? And is emotional experience a mere succession of moods, each forgotten before the next emerges, and without relation to any external reality?