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II. Ec. The transformations described by Bion and the Experience of Space-Time 1) Transformations in hallucinosis. They are transformations that occur in the breakdown of the limits of the capacity of human thought. The expression is to be differentiated from hallucinations, which are sensorial and part of the field of psychotic transformations. The degree of distortion of thinking in hallucinosis corresponds to a particular moral logic, produced by two features: cruelty of the superego and rivalry with O, both capable of destrying life values. The two properties trigger a process whose ultimate objective is to prove that the logic of lies is better and safer than seeking the truth. Other possibilities are to prove that actions are better than words, or that someone is better than others are. Those are examples of false premises underlying the moral logic, despite considered formally correct. The interpretation of the false premise is what allows us to break the cycle of the transformations in hallucinosis and move to the cycle of projective transformations. Otherwise, we will be wasting time discussing with a liar. 2) Projective transformations. They connect meanings that have not reached yet verbal language. They could be meanings inside actions and connected to feelings, therefore they are more easily perceptible than in transformations in hallucinosis. “The analyst’s transformations employ the vehicle of speech just as the musician’s transformations are musical and the painter’s pictorial. Though the analyst attempts to transform O, in accordance with the rules and disciple of verbal communication, this not necessarily the case with the patient” (Bion 1965*, p. 61). The interpretations should try to display something so far existing out of verbal language. If the language of interpretations expresses those facts, then one finds a point to get out of the cycle of projective transformations. Otherwise, the cycles of projective transformations could be comparable to infiltrations of water into a wall. It pursues invisible paths until something like a water leak may appears to the observer with no clue to where it begins (the disconnection between the meaning and its source as in somato-psychotic symptoms or in some inadequate actions). Another example is an increase of idealization (inhibition of thinking), as opposed to realization (creation of thoughts). However, if any development of communication occurs one can talk and expand on what happens at this primitive level of human interaction and then a cycle of rigid motion transformations might begin. 3) Rigid Motion Transformations. The word rigid has nothing to do with rigidity but with the geometry of a transposition of points: like using, as Freud did, the past events, to understand what occurs in the present. Such understanding exemplified by a Freudian interpretation can lead to a transformation in K. 4) Transformations in K. The interpretations aim at knowing about oneself to the point that they transform into some personal wisdom. However, it should be noted that the work of the analyst could go only up to the point that directs K à (O), the analytic transformation.
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