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analyst’s maximal openness to transformations in hallucinosis. This makes sense from a theoretical perspective in that it allows analysts to apperceive clinical material not available when observations are made in T(K). Bion wrote, “The psychoanalyst’s domain is that which lies between the point where a man receives sense impressions and the point where he gives expression to the transformation that has taken place” (Bion 1965, V, p. 245). This is the conceptual domain in which transformations of sense impressions, including those of frank hallucinosis, may proceed towards products, T(β), in K, for which the analyst “gives expression” in thoughts and words. More specifically, Bion wrote that: IV. “The concept of hallucinosis needs to be widened to fit a number of configurations which are at present not recognized as being the same. V. Transformation, in rigid motion or projection, must be seen to have hallucinosis as one of its media” (Bion 1965, V, p. 245). He supported statement 4 when writing “This state I do not regard as an exaggeration of a pathological or even natural condition: I consider it rather to be a state always present, but overlaid by other phenomena, which screen it” (Bion 1970, VI, p. 250). The potential to be maximally open to observation by abandoning memory and desire, i.e., T(K), so as to allow transformations in hallucinations exists ubiquitously; undertaking a scientific “act of faith” and aided by analytically trained intuition, the analyst aims to enter this state for all clinical observation. Statement 5, while very condensed, indicates that rigid motion and projective transformations, both of which fit the model of T(K), emerge from the more primitive realm of ubiquitous transformations in hallucinosis. Ultimately, readers must decide for themselves how to interpret Bion’s texts on these issues most meaningfully. II. E. BION’S TRANSFORMATIONS THROUGH THE LENS OF COMPLEXITY (LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE) Bion stressed that the human mind does not operate through predictable relations, such as that of cause and effect, but through nonlinear processes of growing complexity (Chuster 2014). The theory of transformations has the advantage of screening emotional experience while proposing a new range to the analytical field, making it a field not of cause and effect, not of origins and explanations, but of many interpretative possibilities of a blooming present of meanings. As this current moment is always changing, the principle of uncertainty must be on sight of all interpretations. Psychoanalysis is constantly the beginning of a wide and complex investigation of a living and complex object: the mind.
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