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«…Psycho-analysis is a meaningless term, but it is available…»
«…There must be some reality corresponding to this meaningless term… Psychoanalysis… it is just an invention… a verbal noise; but I think it has been invented because something exists which has to be given a name… it is a word in search of a meaning, a thought waiting for a thinker, a concept waiting for a content…».
I would like to share a few impressions with my colleagues that have been aroused in me by reading Bion's work, with a particular problem in mind: namely, the problem of self-expression.
It seems to me that, although he dealt with it himself only in a marginal way, Bion held a special interest for the problem of self-expression and that his work allows us to see this aspect of the analytical process in a different light.
From one point of view, Bion would infact seem to hold, with Luria, that authentic experience, reality, O, may not be expressed