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BION AND BECKETT TOGETHER
Author(s) -
Mayers David
Publication year - 2000
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.1752-0118.2000.tb00576.x
Subject(s) - exposition (narrative) , chess endgame , psychology , psychoanalysis , evening , literature , art , artificial intelligence , computer science , physics , astronomy
Beckett was in therapy with Bion for two years in the 1930s. After that they had no contact, yet their thoughts ran along uncannily similar lines. I try to show that to read them together is mutually enriching for the understanding of each; though given the nature of the audience, I take a knowledge of Bion for granted and concentrate on an exposition of Beckett. At the conference where a first draft of this paper was given, many participants had seen a production of Endgame the previous evening.