{"id":128324,"date":"2026-10-08T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jungian.directory\/fcxfougk\/?post_type=books&#038;p=128324"},"modified":"2026-10-08T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T17:52:00","slug":"reading-carl-jung-and-wilfred-bion-towards-a-critical-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"books","link":"https:\/\/jungian.directory\/fcxfougk\/books\/reading-carl-jung-and-wilfred-bion-towards-a-critical-dialogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Carl Jung and Wilfred Bion: Towards A Critical Dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s <i>Memories, Dreams, Reflections<\/i>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Table of Contents:<\/p>\n<p><b>Part I: Opening dialogues<br \/>\n<\/b>1. Can There Be a Jung-Bion Dialogue?<b><br \/>\n<\/b><i>Robert Hinshelwood<\/i><b><br \/>\n<\/b>2. Jung, Bion, and Beckett: The Essential Triangle<b><br \/>\n<\/b><i>George B. Hogenson<\/i><b><br \/>\n<\/b>3. Bion\u2019s Reading of C. G. Jung\u2019s <i>Memories, Dreams and Reflections<\/i><b><br \/>\n<\/b><i>Joseph Aguayo<\/i><b><br \/>\nPart II: Historical dialogues<br \/>\n<\/b>4. Jung, Bion and the Crucible of War<b><br \/>\n<\/b><i>Ann Addison<\/i><b><br \/>\n<\/b>5. Early Jung, Early Bion: A different conversation?<b><br \/>\n<\/b><i>Steve Myers<\/i><b><br \/>\n<\/b>6. From Diagnostic Dreams to Soma-Psychosis: Evolving Ideas About the Mind-Body Relationship in the Work of Wilfred Bion<b><br \/>\n<\/b><i>Tobias Jenkins<\/i><b><br \/>\n<\/b>7. Bion and Philosophy: Did Kant and Bergson Influence Bion\u2019s Work?<b><br \/>\n<\/b><i>Barnet D. Malin<\/i><b><br \/>\nPart III: Conceptual dialogues<br \/>\n<\/b>8. Morphogenesis and Psyche: Jung and Bion&#8217;s Writings as Morphogenic Forces in the Analytic Field<b><br \/>\n<\/b><i>Rachael Collier<\/i><b><br \/>\n<\/b>9. Making the Unsayable Experiential<b><br \/>\n<\/b><i>Barbara Helen Miller<\/i><b><br \/>\n<\/b>10. The Teleological Thrust in Jung and Bion<b><br \/>\n<\/b><i>Mark Winborn<\/i><b><br \/>\nPart IV: Dialogues involving case studies<br \/>\n<\/b>11. The Royal Cemetery of Ur and the Death of Palinurus: The Analyst Between Bravery and Sleep<b><br \/>\n<\/b><i>Francesco Bisagni<\/i><b><br \/>\n<\/b>12. Schizophrenia and Ekstasis: Bion, Jung and the Countertransference<b><br \/>\n<\/b><i>John Pallas<\/i><b><br \/>\nPart V: Eastern dialogues<br \/>\n<\/b>13. \u201cNo Memory No Desire\u201d or Non-Ego Psychotherapy: A Comparison Between Wilfred Bion and Hayao Kawai under Zen Buddhist Influences<br \/>\n<i>Jingchao Zeng<br \/>\n<\/i>14. Time and \u201cO\u201d in Oxherding Pictures: Gradualism, Subitism, Archetypal Self and Anarchetypal No-Self<i><br \/>\nMasayoshi Kosugi<br \/>\n<\/i><b>Part VI: Dialogues around apophasis<\/b><i><br \/>\n<\/i>15. Kant, Jung, Bion: Modern Apophatic Thinkers<i><br \/>\nAnn Casement<br \/>\n<\/i>16. Un-Know Thyself?<i><br \/>\nJudith Pickering<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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