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It would be useful if we could recognize that all these various disciplines—music, painting, psycho-analysis and so on ad infinitum—are engaged on the same search for truth.
—Wilfred Bion Four Discussions with W. R. Bion (1978)
It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men the miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.
The preceding lines from Williams' (1968) poem “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower” could also be said to be true of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis is a difficult endeavor, both for the analyst and the analysand, for it is hard not only to get the “news” of the