Abstract

MELEGA, Marisa Pelella. On Bion's catastrophic change and on Meltzer's aesthetic conflict. J. psicanal. [online]. 2017, vol.50, n.93, pp. 235-244. ISSN 0103-5835.

The author discusses two basic concepts of the Bionian-Meltzerian model of mind: Meltzer's "aesthetic conflict", and Bion's "catastrophic change". These models are applied to a clinical case. They are considered fundamental concepts because they structure the whole process of "learning from experience", the whole process of developing the symbolic mind, besides its ethic, emotional, and cognitive effects. The aesthetic conflict involves seeing the process of mental development as an aesthetic function, which is founded on the reciprocity between the internal baby's mind and its internal objects. It is based on the baby's effective answer to the "mother-as-world". The complex experience of the world's beauty, with the desire to know it, activates the symbolic construction, which represents a mind's function at the "aesthetic level".

Keywords : Bion; Meltzer; catastrophic change; aesthetic conflict.

        · abstract in Portuguese | Spanish | French     · text in Portuguese     · Portuguese ( pdf )