The Establishment cannot be dispensed with (though this may appear to be approximately achieved in Sufism and in the theory of Marxism) because the institutionalized group, the Work group (see Bion, 1961), is as essential to the development of the individual, including the mystic, as he is to it.
The effects are still felt and present grave problems of containment even now, though some measure of control has been established.
The rabbinical directorate failed to solve the problem of containment, a failure associated with disastrous consequences for the Jewish group.
Time has often been regarded as being of the
See H. W. Fowler's Dictionary of modern English usage, 2nd edition, ‘Metaphor’ 2D.
The functions of containment – I use the word with its military implication of one force containing another – had to be assumed by the split factions of the group, one ostensibly against and the other for Jesus.
The common features are: containment of the messianic idea in the individual; containment of the messianic individual in the group; the problem for the Establishment that is concerned with the group on the one hand and the messianic idea and individual on the other.
The object of using ♀♂ to differentiate the states of containment which, as with thought and action, prevent conflict by containing thought and containing action in a mutually exclusive commensal state.
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Catastrophic Change
W. R. Bion
In this paper I describe a configuration which constantly recurs in psychoanalysis.
The functions of containment – I use the word with its military implication of one force containing another – had to be assumed by the split factions of the group, one ostensibly against, and the other for, Jesus.
The common features are the containment of the messianic idea in the individual, the containment of the messianic individual in the group and the problem for the Establishment that is concerned with the group on the one hand, and the messianic idea and individual on the other.
The object of using ♀♂ is to differentiate the states of containment which, as with thought and action, prevent conflict by containing thought and containing action 41in a mutually exclusive commensal state.
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Chapter 7.
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An advantage of believing that observations are the foundation of scientific method is that the conditions in which they are made can be stated and then produced.
The effects are still felt and present grave problems of containment even now, though some measure of control has been established.
The rabbinical directorate failed to solve the problem of containment, a failure associated with disastrous consequences for the Jewish group.
2014
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311-326
Chapter 12.
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In this chapter I repeat the configuration in formulations that appear to be descriptions of events in psychoanalysis or history but have not the status of historical narrative.
A patient's close relatives are burdened with memories which
See H. W. Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage, 2nd edition, ‘Metaphor’ 2D.
The common features are: containment of the messianic idea in the individual; containment of the messianic individual in the group; the problem for the Establishment that is concerned with the group on the one hand and the messianic idea and individual on the other.
The object of using ♀♂ is to differentiate the states of containment which, as with thought and action, prevent conflict by containing thought and action in a mutually exclusive commensal state.