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processes acquire status of representability capable of translations into thoughts and meaning (Riolo); detailed clinical studies of movement from ‘knowing about’ to ‘being’ (Joseph), and exploration of the area of unrepressed unconscious of psychotic parts of personality with tendency to reduce multidimensional complex spaces into a unidimensional point (Bergstein). Overall, wide ranging differences in interpretation of Bion’s work on “Transformations” and consequent plurality of its contemporary developments notwithstanding, there is an acknowledgement that it presents a substantive way to widen and deepen the field and tools of observation, orienting and ‘sensitizing’ the analyst during the session (and between sessions) to the parts of patients’ personalities, otherwise not readily accessible to the analytic view and discourse, requiring psychic work of transformation in order to bring about change and growth.
See also: CONTAINMENT: CONTAINER-CONTAINED COUNTERTRANSFERENCE DRIVES EGO PSYCHOLOGY INTERSUBJECTIVITY
OBJECT RELATIONS THEORIES PROJECTIVE IDENTIFICATION PSYCHOANALYTIC FIELD THEORIES AND CONCEPTS THE UNCONSCIOUS
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