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Bion's Theory of Dreams: A Visionary Model of the Mind

Bion's Theory of Dreams: A Visionary Model of the Mind

Monteiro, João Sousa

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General EducationGeneral PsychologyMental Health

ISBN10: 1032450517
ISBN13: 9781032450513
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 12 2023
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Through a richly detailed close reading of Wilfred R. Bion's work on dreaming, as scattered across multifarious and largely unworked texts, this book argues that Bion's thinking can form a unified theory of dreams which extends and has further implications as a visionary model of the mind.

The central quality of Bion's visionary model of the mind is the belief that all that is interesting in the human mind pulsates with an unreadably complex dynamic beyond the unknown, the unknowable and the unthinkable. However, rather than interpreting this negatively, the author understands the inevitable unknowability of the human mind as a call to perplexity and wonder which actively encourages the intuition of fundamental insights into who and what determines our internal lives. A major implication of this belief is that psychoanalysis is itself essentially about the unknown, and Monteiro generates informed observations about how this may influence psychoanalytic work.

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