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BION, THE PARIAH OF‘O’
Author(s) -
Grotstein James S.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
british journal of psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1752-0118
pISSN - 0265-9883
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0118.1997.tb00354.x
Subject(s) - pariah group , psychology , psychoanalysis , psychotherapist , law , politics , political science
Bion's elaboration of transformations and evolutions in‘0’represents one of the profoundest paradigm changes within psychoanalysis to date. The sweep of its epistemological embrace is so radical that it understandably dismayed many of his analytic cohorts, who thereupon marginalized him in the British Psycho‐Analytical Society. The concept of‘0′, I am arguing, unites all the existing branches of culture and epistemology from the religious to the scientific and allows us to begin to conceptualize a boundless horizon of containment for our boundless anxieties about our being‐in‐the‐world.