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“To docket living things past any doubt You cancel first the living spirit out: The parts lie in the hollow of your hand, You only lack the living link you banned”
Our clinical-theoretical discussion starts out by examining how Bion has revolutionised the perspective from which we observe the analyst's mental functioning in the setting and his various ways of coming into play.
According to Bion, the analyst is not placed outside history and outside the patient's mental functioning: analysis becomes an authentic adventure — a new meeting between two people who do not know each other, and it also represents the possibility to write a new history out of the many possible ones, according to the reciprocal interaction of the two minds involved in the session and the risk of mental dilatation they are capable of running in order to accept new thoughts.