Introducing Bion: Some Basic Dimensions

2 CE credits for psychoanalysts, Social Workers and Psychologists

James Ogilvie will introduce an aspect of Bion’s psychoanalytic engagement with the “primitive mind,” focusing on some of the basic turns through which he engages us. Bion has a remarkable ability to bring us into a more immediate, “from the inside” contact with areas of psychic fragmentation and rebirth. We will explore how he does this, with attention to his use of images—invoking dimensionality or its absence—of space, time, and infinite extent or singular density. As he puts it, the psychoanalyst is particularly challenged in having to “employ methods which have the counterpart of durability or extension in a domain where there is no time or space as those terms are used in the world of sense.” Clinical implications will be considered.

James Ogilvie, PhD, is a graduate of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is a co-founder and on the faculty of the Contemplative Studies Project of New York. He maintains a private psychoanalytic practice in Manhattan, where he also leads study groups on Bion and on “Wittgenstein for Psychoanalysts.” He has written and presented on a range of subjects, including Wittgenstein and the treatment of psychosis; how to create an inpatient spiritual issues group; Buddhist emptiness in analysis; and Bion’s mystical turn.

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