The Kleinian Development: Part Iii: The Clinical Significance Of The Work Of Bion
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Book: Fair
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Pages: Good
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In the final volume of his landmark trilogy, Donald Meltzer, M.D., turns his incisive analytical lens on the towering figure of Wilfred Bion, one of the most original and challenging minds in the history of psychoanalytic thought. The Kleinian Development, Part III: The Clinical Significance of the Work of Bion presents a rigorous and illuminating examination of Bion's radical contributions—from his theory of thinking and the container/contained model to his transformative concepts of O and catastrophic change—mapping their profound implications for clinical practice. Meltzer argues with characteristic precision and intellectual courage that Bion's work does not merely extend the Kleinian tradition but fundamentally reshapes it, demanding a new grammar of the mind and a new ethics of the analytic encounter. Written in Meltzer's celebrated style—dense with insight yet suffused with a poetic attentiveness to the nuances of inner life—this volume stands as an indispensable companion for clinicians, analysts, and scholars seeking to navigate the full arc of post-Kleinian thought. Together with its companion volumes on Freud and Klein, it forms one of the most coherent and ambitious accounts of psychoanalytic intellectual history ever assembled. For any serious student of the mind, the question Meltzer leaves unanswered is the most compelling of all: where does Bion's vision ultimately lead us?
Author: Donald Meltzer
Format: Paperback
Published: 1978, Clunie Press
Genre: Psychology
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; creased spine
In the final volume of his landmark trilogy, Donald Meltzer, M.D., turns his incisive analytical lens on the towering figure of Wilfred Bion, one of the most original and challenging minds in the history of psychoanalytic thought. The Kleinian Development, Part III: The Clinical Significance of the Work of Bion presents a rigorous and illuminating examination of Bion's radical contributions—from his theory of thinking and the container/contained model to his transformative concepts of O and catastrophic change—mapping their profound implications for clinical practice. Meltzer argues with characteristic precision and intellectual courage that Bion's work does not merely extend the Kleinian tradition but fundamentally reshapes it, demanding a new grammar of the mind and a new ethics of the analytic encounter. Written in Meltzer's celebrated style—dense with insight yet suffused with a poetic attentiveness to the nuances of inner life—this volume stands as an indispensable companion for clinicians, analysts, and scholars seeking to navigate the full arc of post-Kleinian thought. Together with its companion volumes on Freud and Klein, it forms one of the most coherent and ambitious accounts of psychoanalytic intellectual history ever assembled. For any serious student of the mind, the question Meltzer leaves unanswered is the most compelling of all: where does Bion's vision ultimately lead us?