Beam of Intense Darkness

The scope of this work is to synopsize, synthesize, extend, and to challenge Bion in a reader-friendly manner. Presenting the most important legacy-ideas for psychoanalysis ”the ideas that are on the cutting edge of the field that need to be known by the mental health profession at large ”it highlights and defines the broader and deeper implications of his works. A Beam of Intense Darkness presents Bion "s ideas faithfully and also uses his ideas as launching pads for the author "s conjectures about where Bion's ideas point. This includes such ideas as Sthe Language of Achievement , Sreverie, Struth, SO, and Stransformations “in, of, and from it, but also S L, SH, and SK linkages (to show how Bion rerouted Freud "s instinctual drives to emotions), Scontainer/contained", Bion "s ideas on Sdreaming, Sbecoming, Sthoughts without a thinker, Sthe Grid, his erasure of the distinction between Freud "s, Sprimary and secondary processes S and the Spleasure and Sreality principles, Sreversible perspective, Sshifting vertices, Sbinocular vision, Scontact-barrier, the replacement of Sconsciousness and Sunconsciousness with infinity and finiteness, Bion "s use of models, his distinction between Smentalization and Sthinking, as well as many other items.Grotstein, James is the author of 'Beam of Intense Darkness', published 2007 under ISBN 9781855754485 and ISBN 1855754487.