CICCONE, Albert. Transformation and invariance in continuity with Bion's thinking. Cad. psicanal. []. 2021, 43, 44, pp.11-24. ISSN 1413-6295.

Based on Bion's notions related to transformation, alpha function and caesura, the article deals with the link between invariance and transformation, in the processes of representation and in thought, proposing that invariance has the function of mitigating the difficult effects of changes, which can eventually be experienced as catastrophic. This function would make it possible to build a representation and ensure continuity, having as its axis the rhythmicity that allows the integration of experiences of separation or transformation presupposed in the passage from one state to another. The notion of invariant is equally useful to think about continuity in the movements of discontinuity, of rupture, which the thought work needs for the construction of abstractions.

: Transformation; Invariance; Continuity; Rhythmicity.

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