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III. Aa. Arnaldo Chuster’s Ethical-Esthetic Principles Chuster (1999, 2002, 2011, 2014, and 2018) described how “Transformations” is a very sophisticated and intuitive Bion’s application of the Theory of Complexity by means of the Uncertainty principle of observation. This principle unfolds to what Chuster named ethical- aesthetic principles of observation. These ethical-esthetic principles of observations include complexity (which encompasses all others), uncertainty, infinity, singularity, incompleteness, undecidable of origin, and negative capability. All of them are also extensions of Bion’s concept of “Three Priniples of Living” (Bion 1979b, p. 329). which Bion derives from, and juxtaposes to, Freud’s Two Principles of Mental Functioning. They are: “First, feeling; second, anticipatory thinking; third, feeling plus thinking, plus Thinking. The latter is synonymous with prudence or foresight * action” (Bion 1979b p. 329). In Chuster’s view, epistemologically speaking, they should guide any model’s application. The associated ethical and esthetic vertexes (points of view) are intended to create language for interpretations of any living reality Over the past 20 years, Chuster (1999, 2002, 2011, 2014, 2018; Chuster et al. 2014) has made various clarifications and additions of the Bion’s Theory of Transformation. He takes as his starting point Bion’s psychoanalytical model, which proposes to think in a new way embodied in the movement of the nucleus of the psyche, which Bion called pre-conception. The model stating that preconception seeks a realization to generate conceptions (thoughts) is a model of three periods, epistemologically distinct from the four steps of instinctual drives of Freudian model. One can say it is a non-structural model. The preconception movement observed by means of the principle of complexity traces human evolution in a new way; in fact, one might consider the preconception model a representation of such complexity that Bion also called “O” (1965). The preconception model considers that humans are slow to develop ‘neotenic creatures’, retaining some pre-natal and neonatal characteristics well into advanced stages of their development (Chuster, 2018). They are born very immature in order to lessen innate factors and amplify the capacity of learning from experience. Life is a matter of learning from experience, located in the mysterious mind. As an example of Complexity of pre-conception , one can investigate its production and products in the realm of thoughts and language, that is, the production of meanings and words as well as its effects in the body. Every thought (conception) refers to an indeterminate state, a totality always open to change, which is constituted by means of a referential link where ‘container’ and ‘contained’ interact constantly at the limits of the alpha function’s capacity – an extension in life of the interaction between the mother and the baby through the reverie function. This referential link is fundamental to the analytical process. It expresses itself effectively as indetermination in the psyche, and in psychoanalysis by transformations of the associative process. For example, when a patient tells a dream, nobody can predict what the associations to it will be and where they will lead. Likewise, nobody can predict what changes from one mental state to another will ensue after an interpretation. This is the ethical-aesthetical principle of Uncertainty , added to a principle of Incompleteness . Another consequence of this link is the infinite character of its development. Chuster (1999, 2002, 2014, and 2018) named it a principle of Infinity . This allows for a notion that the human unconscious necessarily goes
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