Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Bion's Caesura
Minding the Gap
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:19th Nov '26
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This book investigates Bion’s enigmatic concept of Caesura—the gap that connects in multiple realms of human existence. The authors respond to Bion's challenge for future analysts to explore its significance and bridge the theoretical limitations he identified in his generation’s understanding.
The contributors of this volume honor Bion's legacy by expanding his notion of caesura, demonstrating its still-untapped potential for inspiring new thoughts and original perspectives on a variety of psychoanalytic concerns. Among other issues, they explore the caesuras of birth, trauma, the formation of thought, the question of truth, the connective tissue between body and psyche, the powerful linking force of myths, and the tension between the personal and the socio-political in the consulting room.
This book is ideal for psychoanalysts, scholars, and students seeking to explore the impact of caesural thought across psychoanalytic schools and disciplines. It appeals to those interested in post-Bionian field theories, relational thought, and existential psychoanalysis. Those who wish to explore the caesura between psychoanalysis and other fields of study, such as philosophy, modern medical outlook and Kabbalah research will find in this book a fruitful interdisciplinary dialogue, and a creative tension between past traditions and contemporary paradigms.
"An exploration and expressive, thoughtful sharing of various facets of Bion's concept of caesura. This book at once opens and enriches creative use of profoundly evocative areas that add dimensionality to psychic life."
Michael EigenPhD., Author of Contact With the Depths, The Sensitive Self, The Mystical Psychoanalyst and The Challenge of Being Human. He currently teaches for the NYU Postdoctoral Program and the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. He gives am online private seminar ongoing over fifty years.
"This book makes Bion’s concept of caesura vibrate with new life — not as a break, but as a generative pause, a dream-space where narration takes over from interpretation. The authors, each in their own key, listen to the silences between thoughts, allowing characters, ideas, and truths to emerge and dissolve. As in all good psychoanalysis, there is no single voice — only reverberations across a field. The result is not a map, but a fabric: dense, porous, and alive. A book to dream with, not merely to read."
Antonino Ferro, Training and Supervising Analyst, Italian Psychoanalytic Society
"This wonderful collection of essays inspired by Wilfred Bion's extraordinary, highly evocative (1977) paper, Caesura, collected and edited by Alice Bar Nes, will be of great interest to psychotherapists and psychoanalytically informed scholars at all levels of experience, across diverse theoretical perspectives. Each author situates Bion's thought seamlessly into the wider field of psychoanalytic studies. Aficianados of Winnicott's influential ideas on transitionality, contemporary field theory, trauma theory, and contemporary relational theory in its emphasis on intersubjectivity, dissociation, and self- state multiplicity will enjoy tracing the links and dissonances among all these cutting edge currents of psychoanalytically informed contemporary thought. The writing is rich and smart throughout, deeply engaging, even riveting in the way it applies deeply informed theorizing to help us to stay grounded and perhaps more useful to our most challenging patients."
Anthony Bass Ph.D., Psychoanalyst and Author of It takes Two to Know One: The Therapy Relationship and Unconscious Dialogues
ISBN: 9781032818382
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360 pages