This book examines potential resonances between the works of Carl Jung and Wilfred Bion, in the context of mutual formative influences, congruent interests and their respective psychoanalytic writings.
It has long been acknowledged that, in 1935, Bion at the outset of his psychoanalytic career attended the Tavistock Lectures given by Jung at The Institute of Medical Psychology. This, along with new evidence of annotations made by Bion in a copy of Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections, is sparking interest in the exploration and study of conceptual comparisons between the work and ideas of these two key psychoanalytic thinkers. This book questions the extent to which they may have carved out divergent but overlapping spheres within their conceptualisations and discusses possible factors which may have been at play in any such areas of overlap.
This new book will be of interest to practitioners, scholars and students alike, within the fields of analytical psychology and psychoanalysis and to all who have an interest in the ideas of Carl Jung and Wilfred Bion.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Opening dialogues
1. Can There Be a Jung-Bion Dialogue?
Robert Hinshelwood
2. Jung, Bion, and Beckett: The Essential Triangle
George B. Hogenson
3. Bion’s Reading of C. G. Jung’s Memories, Dreams and Reflections
Joseph Aguayo
Part II: Historical dialogues
4. Jung, Bion and the Crucible of War
Ann Addison
5. Early Jung, Early Bion: A different conversation?
Steve Myers
6. From Diagnostic Dreams to Soma-Psychosis: Evolving Ideas About the Mind-Body Relationship in the Work of Wilfred Bion
Tobias Jenkins
7. Bion and Philosophy: Did Kant and Bergson Influence Bion’s Work?
Barnet D. Malin
Part III: Conceptual dialogues
8. Morphogenesis and Psyche: Jung and Bion’s Writings as Morphogenic Forces in the Analytic Field
Rachael Collier
9. Making the Unsayable Experiential
Barbara Helen Miller
10. The Teleological Thrust in Jung and Bion
Mark Winborn
Part IV: Dialogues involving case studies
11. The Royal Cemetery of Ur and the Death of Palinurus: The Analyst Between Bravery and Sleep
Francesco Bisagni
12. Schizophrenia and Ekstasis: Bion, Jung and the Countertransference
John Pallas
Part V: Eastern dialogues
13. “No Memory No Desire” or Non-Ego Psychotherapy: A Comparison Between Wilfred Bion and Hayao Kawai under Zen Buddhist Influences
Jingchao Zeng
14. Time and “O” in Oxherding Pictures: Gradualism, Subitism, Archetypal Self and Anarchetypal No-Self
Masayoshi Kosugi
Part VI: Dialogues around apophasis
15. Kant, Jung, Bion: Modern Apophatic Thinkers
Ann Casement
16. Un-Know Thyself?
Judith Pickering