The Courage of Simplicity : Essential Ideas in the Work of W. R. Bion.

COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD -- Introduction -- PART I INTEGRATIVE CONCEPTS -- CHAPTER ONE The concepts of the container and contained in Bion's thought -- CHAPTER TWO The selected fact -- CHAPTER THREE The caesura -- PART II PERSON -- CHAPTER FOUR How thoughts are born in light of Bionian theory -- CHAPTER FIVE Looking at the myth of Oedipus following Bion -- PART III GROUP -- CHAPTER SIX An introduction to Bion's contribution to group dynamics -- CHAPTER SEVEN Myths, memories, and roles: how they live again in the group process -- CHAPTER EIGHT Bion's links: how they are manifested in the Foulkesian matrix -- CHAPTER NINE The "untouchable": racism and prejudice in the analytic group -- PART IV SOCIETY -- CHAPTER TEN The difficulty of channelling rage into dialogue -- CHAPTER ELEVEN From possessing to belonging -- CHAPTER TWELVE The social unconscious and its manifestation in the analytic group -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN A boy is torn between two realities: looking at his biography in the light of the social unconscious -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN The unconscious emergence of identity -- EPILOGUE Some selected facts of my biography -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

This book observes psychoanalytic thinking through three prisms: person, group and society. The book is divided into four sections. The first revolves around the individual. Clinical in its emphasis, it discusses Bion's theory of thinking, his reading of the Oedipus myth and his notion of the "selected fact".

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