All his life, Wilfred Bion attempted to devise a narrative form for an account of the traumatic experiences he went through as a tank commander in the First World War. The body of his autobiographical works, which consists of texts written in different stages of his life and remain fragmentary, documents his desperate efforts to wrest a biography of his own from the most appalling tendencies of world history. As a whole, it testifies for and is the result of a lifelong attempt to understand something incomprehensible, to express something unspeakable, to restore something destroyed. It represents something akin to the primal history of the psychic catastrophe that Bion failed to escape from as long as he lived. The article first provides an overview of these autobiographical and literary writings against the background of a brief account of the external facts of Bion’s life. It then undertakes a narrative analysis of the sequences in which Bion tries to find a narrative form for the arguably most terrible event of the entire war which not only was a deeply traumatic experience remaining with him throughout his life, but also resulted in what he felt to be his psychic death. Taken together, these sequences impressively show the painful work of gradually dissolving or at least coming to terms with the psychological catastrophe of a paralyzing trauma, the causes of which reach far beyond the individual and the private. The article sets out to contribute to the still unwritten inquiry into the genetic context in which Bion’s autobiographical, literary, and theoretical writings figure, together with the concepts and writing strategies embodied in them.

威尔弗雷德·比恩一生都在尝试设计一种叙事形式，以描述他作为坦克指挥官在第一次世界大战中所经历的创伤经历。他的自传体作品由在他生命的不同阶段所写的文本组成，并且仍然是零散的，记录了他为从世界历史上最骇人听闻的趋势中夺取自己的传记所做的不顾一切的努力。作为一个整体，它证明并且是终生尝试去理解一些不可理解的东西、表达一些难以言说的东西、恢复被破坏的东西的结果。它代表了类似于比恩一生都未能逃脱的精神灾难的原始历史。本文首先在简要介绍比昂生平的外部事实的背景下，对这些自传和文学作品进行了概述。然后，它对比昂试图为整个战争中可以说是最可怕的事件寻找叙事形式的序列进行叙事分析，这不仅是他一生中留下的深刻创伤经历，而且还导致了他的感受成为他的精神死亡。总而言之，这些序列令人印象深刻地展示了逐渐消解或至少与瘫痪创伤的心理灾难达成协议的痛苦工作，其原因远远超出个人和私人。这篇文章旨在为比昂的自传、文学、