The Emergent Container in Psychoanalysis

Drawing largely from the psychoanalytic ground of Jung, Bion and Winnicott, from Plato and Whitehead, A. N., and from numerous clinical studies, this book explores 'Absence' and 'Future' in the context of their many emotional and conceptual meanings.

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Absence and Future 2. Hallucination as Pathology and as Entrée into the Collective Unconscious 3. Bion's Theory of Thinking, Absence, Container/Contained. Projective Identification and Hallucination 4. Absence and Precursor to Pathological Organisation and Equally as Basic to Psychic Life 5. Negative Capability 6. Experience and Whitehead: "Philosophy is a lure for feeling" (Whitehead, 1929) 7. Whitehead and Heraclitus: Permanence, Flux and Novelty 8. Being, Becoming and Modes of Being 9. Quaternio 10. Formlessness 11. Interrelations Index