A PREOCCUPATION WITH OBJECT- REPRESENTATION: THE BECKETT-BION CASE REVISITED

摘要

Taking issue with the nation of a profound reciprocal influence of Samuel Beckett and his analyst, Wilfred Bion based on supposition all too often passed as fact, the author refutes the idea that Bion's 'Attacks on linking' was based on his later-to-be famous patient. Choosing, rather, to apply Bion's concepts of transformation and assaults on verbal thought To Beckett's remarkably visual and highly dissociative writing, she finds in the analyst's Work a means of exploring a starting preoccupation with object representation and an Anxiety of remembrance constant throughout the writer's texts.