The Analytic Field and its Transformations
- London : Karnac Books, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource (225 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE The meaning and use of metaphor in analytic field theory; CHAPTER TWO Stone got eyes: on Bion's seminar in Paris; CHAPTER THREE Mourning and the empty couch: a conversation between analysts; CHAPTER FOUR The secret of faces; CHAPTER FIVE Spacings; CHAPTER SIX Analysts in search of an author: Voltaire or Artemisia Gentileschi?; CHAPTER SEVEN Confrontation in the Bionian model of the analytic field; CHAPTER EIGHT A Beam of Intense Darkness: a discussion of the book by James Grotstein. CHAPTER NINE Between "other" and "other": Merleau-Ponty as a precursor of the analytic fieldCHAPTER TEN Carla's panic attacks: insight and transformation; REFERENCES; INDEX.
The Analytic Field and its Transformations presents a collection of articles written jointly by Antonino Ferro and Giuseppe Civitarese over the last few years. All revolve around the post-Bionian model of the analytic field (BFT). Indeed, analytic field theory is emerging as a new paradigm in psychoanalysis. Going hand-in-hand with this is an ever-growing interest in Bion in general. Bion mounts a systematic deconstruction of the principles of classical psychoanalysis. His aim, however, is not to destroy it, but rather to bring out its untapped potential and to develop ideas that have remained.