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On Hallucination, Intuition, and the Becoming of "O"
A scholarly adventure in post-Kleinian psychoanalytic thinking from which emerges a strong influence from the work of Bion.
- THE CAESURA AS TRANSPARENT MIRROR: W. R. BION AND THE CONTACT BARRIER The Definitions of Mind and Body -- "A System that Continues to Function -- However Damaged it May Be" -- "The Powerful Inanity of Events" -- The Relationship of the Beta Screen to the Theory of Catastrophic Change Bion and Lévi-Strauss, and Hallucination as "Pure" Culture -- OPTIC GLASS: THE NIPPLE-TONGUE AS PRECONCEPTION The Role of Hallucination in an Infant Observation -- "The Cosmos is a Mirror in which Everything is Reflected" -- The Disappearing Tennis-Net -- From a Paternal to a Maternal Conception of Transference -- The Paranoid-Schizoid Version of the Imaginary Twin Transition Concepts -- TRANSFORMATION IN HALLUCINOSIS AND THE INSTITUTION OF DIVINE KINGSHIP Annihilation and Transformation in Hallucinosis -- Catastrophic Fusions: Kings and Diviners Among the Moundag of Chad -- The Dread of Verticality that Underlies a World of Space and Time -- The Body as Cosmic Impress -- The Divine King and the Macrocosm of Destruction -- The Divine King as Microcosm of Creation -- The Double Labyrinth -- The Duration of the Body and the Reverberation of the Image -- The Fetish as Replacement for the Organ of Psychic Perception -- THE PLAY SHAKESPEARE DID NOT WRITE The Gifts of the Saturnalian King -- The Opening and Closing of Shutters on a Window -- The Hidden God -- The Relationship of Swallowing and the Prehensive Object -- Absence of Breath and Cordelia's Mirror -- The World's Deep Midnight.
- THE CAESURA AS TRANSPARENT MIRROR: W. R. BION AND THE CONTACT BARRIER The Definitions of Mind and Body -- "A System that Continues to Function -- However Damaged it May Be" -- "The Powerful Inanity of Events" -- The Relationship of the Beta Screen to the Theory of Catastrophic Change Bion and Lévi-Strauss, and Hallucination as "Pure" Culture -- OPTIC GLASS: THE NIPPLE-TONGUE AS PRECONCEPTION The Role of Hallucination in an Infant Observation -- "The Cosmos is a Mirror in which Everything is Reflected" -- The Disappearing Tennis-Net -- From a Paternal to a Maternal Conception of Transference -- The Paranoid-Schizoid Version of the Imaginary Twin Transition Concepts -- TRANSFORMATION IN HALLUCINOSIS AND THE INSTITUTION OF DIVINE KINGSHIP Annihilation and Transformation in Hallucinosis -- Catastrophic Fusions: Kings and Diviners Among the Moundag of Chad -- The Dread of Verticality that Underlies a World of Space and Time -- The Body as Cosmic Impress -- The Divine King and the Macrocosm of Destruction -- The Divine King as Microcosm of Creation -- The Double Labyrinth -- The Duration of the Body and the Reverberation of the Image -- The Fetish as Replacement for the Organ of Psychic Perception -- THE PLAY SHAKESPEARE DID NOT WRITE The Gifts of the Saturnalian King -- The Opening and Closing of Shutters on a Window -- The Hidden God -- The Relationship of Swallowing and the Prehensive Object -- Absence of Breath and Cordelia's Mirror -- The World's Deep Midnight.
224 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1997
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December 18, 2017
The argument is that hallucinatory thinking may appear random but really has an underpinning logic. It's a non-binary logic about intermediary status between, or the union of, opposites. It's about threshold crossing and transformation. When ideas and feelings are too powerful to handle directly, they generate shadow forces. Reflections get projected. This is described with reference to myths of various cultures and occasionally to Shakespeare.
The style is either postmodern theory (with which I have little familiarity or skill) or poetry. If you try to read this purely analytically, it'll be slow going. You may need some kind of connection to the topic like some familiarity with a Frazer Golden Bough or Campbell Hero's Journey approach to myth or a relevant personal experience as well as a willingness to read this essay like a poem.
The style is either postmodern theory (with which I have little familiarity or skill) or poetry. If you try to read this purely analytically, it'll be slow going. You may need some kind of connection to the topic like some familiarity with a Frazer Golden Bough or Campbell Hero's Journey approach to myth or a relevant personal experience as well as a willingness to read this essay like a poem.
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