ABSTRACT

Bion’s concept of O is examined and it is proposed that it is a valuable yet mysterious concept for psychotherapists to draw upon. Although Bion showed a keen interest in epistemology, that is to say, how we know and understand, he subsequently instructed therapists to eschew knowing and understanding by divesting themselves of memory and desire in order to be maximally exposed to the mystery of each patient. It is suggested, therefore, that such a mode requires a fresh analytic stance. An overview of O surveys the ways in which Bion developed O and a brief survey of its reception is included. Subsequently, the centrality of the urge to know and the experience of not knowing is explored with an examination of Freudian and Kleinian interest in the tireless yet painful Oedipal urge to know. A survey of Bion’s models of containing the search for knowing follows. Finally, a clinical example illuminates the author’s clinical experience of both the patient’s urge to know, and their own experience of not knowing as mediated though the context of Bion’s mysterious concept O.

摘要

对比昂的O概念进行了研究，并提出这是心理治疗师可以借鉴的有价值而又神秘的概念。尽管比昂对认识论表现出了浓厚的兴趣，也就是说，我们对知识的了解和理解，但他随后指示治疗师放弃自己的记忆和欲望，以避开认识和了解，以便最大程度地了解每个患者的奥秘。因此，建议这种模式需要新的分析立场。O的概述概述了Bion开发O的方式，并简要介绍了其接收情况。随后，冲动的中心认识和经验不通过对弗洛伊德和克莱因对不厌烦但痛苦的俄狄浦斯人的求知欲的兴趣的考察来探索知识。下面是对Bion包含寻找知识的模型的调查。最后，一个临床实例阐明了作者在患者的认识欲望方面的临床经验，以及他们自己在通过Bion神秘概念O的背景下不知道被介导的经历。