The Bion Seminars at the A-Santamaría Association

Howard B. Levine is a member of APSA, PINE, the Contemporary Freudian Society and Pulsion; he is on the faculty of NYU Post-Doc’s Contemporary Freudian Track, on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Inquiry, editor-in-chief of the Routledge Wilfred Bion Studies Book Series and in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. Jani Santamaría Linares is a member of APSA, APM, FEPAL, IPA and the International Advisory Committee of the Routledge Bion Studies Book Series, director of A-Santamaría Psychoanalysis Mexico A.C., a training and supervising analyst for children and adolescents, a member of the International Committee of Spanish Language Psychoanalysts and in private practice in Mexico City.

Introduction 1. Reading the Child and Adolescent Bion 2. On Arrogance 3. A Theory of Thinking 4. Differentiation of the Psychotic from the Non-Psychotic Personality: A Link Between Early and Late Bion 5. The Limitations of Language in the Psychic Realm 6. The Clinical Importance of Frustration 7. Attention and Interpretation 8. Memory and Desire 9. Caesura 10. Transformations 11. Negative Capability: Navigating the Paradox in the Language of Achievement and the Language of Substitution