Bion Crosses the Rubicon: The Fateful Course - and Curse - of O in Psychoanalysis and the Furies Left in its Wake

The rising world of waters dark and deep Won from the void and formless infinite.

I am not interpreting what Milton says but using it to represent O.

This contribution, as the title suggests, deals in part with Bion's change both in geographic location and, more saliently, in his theoretical stance in psychoanalytic theory and practice. He indeed underwent a «sea change» on both accounts, yet it can be argued parenthetically that his first published formal psychoanalytic contribution, The imaginary twin , convincingly reveals an unusual, complex, and unusually creative mind that precociously adumbrated a major feature of future psychoanalytic practice, that of internal psychic twins in «the here and now». His immediately subsequent so-called «Kleinian Bion» publications, in my opinion, arguably amply demonstrate «late Bion». Already one could realize that this was no ordinary Kleinianjust presenting his institute graduating paper.