Brazilian Lectures: 1973 São Paulo / 1974 Rio De Janeiro/São Paulo
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Few figures in the history of psychoanalysis have challenged the boundaries of human thought as profoundly as Wilfred R. Bion, and Brazilian Lectures stands as one of the most remarkable records of his mind at work. Delivered in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in 1973 and 1974, these lectures capture Bion in direct, unscripted dialogue with Brazilian analysts and students, presenting his radical theories on thinking, unconscious experience, and the nature of psychoanalytic inquiry in their most immediate and unguarded form. What sets Brazilian Lectures apart is not merely its content but its form — the seminar setting strips away the formality of his written works, revealing a thinker who argues through paradox, disrupts received clinical wisdom, and invites his audience into a shared state of not-knowing. Bion's signature concepts — O, the nameless dread, the container and the contained — are not merely defined here but demonstrated in real time, making this volume essential reading for clinicians, theorists, and anyone drawn to the furthest reaches of psychoanalytic thought. The question Bion leaves unanswered is perhaps his greatest gift: what remains when all our certainties about the mind have been carefully dissolved?
Author: Wilfred R. Bion
Format: Paperback
Published: 1990, Karnac Books
Genre: Psychology
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good.
Few figures in the history of psychoanalysis have challenged the boundaries of human thought as profoundly as Wilfred R. Bion, and Brazilian Lectures stands as one of the most remarkable records of his mind at work. Delivered in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in 1973 and 1974, these lectures capture Bion in direct, unscripted dialogue with Brazilian analysts and students, presenting his radical theories on thinking, unconscious experience, and the nature of psychoanalytic inquiry in their most immediate and unguarded form. What sets Brazilian Lectures apart is not merely its content but its form — the seminar setting strips away the formality of his written works, revealing a thinker who argues through paradox, disrupts received clinical wisdom, and invites his audience into a shared state of not-knowing. Bion's signature concepts — O, the nameless dread, the container and the contained — are not merely defined here but demonstrated in real time, making this volume essential reading for clinicians, theorists, and anyone drawn to the furthest reaches of psychoanalytic thought. The question Bion leaves unanswered is perhaps his greatest gift: what remains when all our certainties about the mind have been carefully dissolved?