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Author Monteiro, João Sousa

Title Bion's Theory of Dreams A Visionary Model of the Mind
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (274 p.)
Contents Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Presentation of the Book -- Foreword -- Preface I -- Preface II -- Introduction -- Part 1 On the Unknown, the Unknowable and the Unthinkable -- 1 Freud's Dream-Thoughts: An Uninvited Step Into the Unknown, the Unknowable and the Unthinkable -- 2 Bion's Theory of Contact-Barrier: A Winding Road Into the Mysteries of the Human Mind -- 3 New Remarks on the Structure: And the Workings of the Contact-Barrier -- 4 The Conscious Mind and the Unconscious Mind: New Remarks on the Contact-Barrier
5 A Brief Historical Survey -- 6 Alpha-Function as a Cluster of Dreaming Functions -- 7 Mother's Reverie: And the Mystery of Introjection -- 8 What Is a Dream? -- 9 Bion's Theory of Dream-Work-Alpha: Part I -- 10 Bion's Theory of Dream-Work-Alpha: Part II -- 11 The Enigmatic Fabric of Mental Life -- 12 The Dreaming Ego -- 13 How Conscious Is Conscious and Unconscious Unconscious? -- 14 Freud's Wrestling With "The Fact of Consciousness" -- 15 What, Then, Is a Dream? -- 16 The Soul and the Stone -- 17 Still Unregistered Disorders -- 18 I Don't Know -- 19 What Is Hearing?
Part 2 The Human Mind as the Celebration of Unmeasure -- 20 The Fundamental Basic Assumption of Psychoanalysis -- 21 The Myth of Interpretation and the Role of the Ineffable -- 22 The Slippery Word Understanding -- 23 Knowledge as a Privileged Path to Intimacy -- 24 Passion and the Wonder of Unmeasure -- 25 The Misfortune of Explanation -- 26 "Thinking With Passion Is the Unconscious Thing" -- 27 The Inspiring Light of Perplexity and the Emerging Experience of Mystery: A Note -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
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Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000873641
1000873641