Wilfred Bion and Literary Criticism introduces the work of the British psychoanalyst, Wilfred Bion (1897-1979), and the immense potential of his ideas for thinking about literature, creative process, and creative writing.
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1. Selected Facts: Introducing the work of Wilfred Bion 2. Freud's 'excessively intense' idea: the Project for a Scientific Psychology 3. Pompey's thought-worm: Stevie Smith's Novel on Yellow Paper 4. Restoring the lost container: B. S. Johnson's The Unfortunates 5. With and without Bion: supplementing an uncanny reading of Mary Butts 6. Jean Rhys' bizarre telescope: a Bion-emic/-etic Reading of Wide Sargasso Sea 7. Efficient psychosis: notes towards a Bionian Ballardian breakdown 8. Becoming ray: Transformations in Nicholas Royle's Quilt 9. Dream I Tell You: Bion's A Memoir of the Future 10. Is writing (an) Alpha-Function?
