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JUNQUEIRA FILHO, Luiz Carlos Uchôa. Void and negativity as factors in Bion's “Catastrophic change”. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2012, vol.46, n.2, pp. 151-165. ISSN 0486-641X.

The paper explores in which way void and negativity work as factors in the state of “catastrophic change” described by Bion. This is a polyvalent state because, according to Bion, it can represent a break-down, so much as a break-up or a break-through. The void - the place where the object was - defies the psyche to modify frustration (through thinking) or to evade it (via evacuation of psychic pain): but, void (no-thing) must be differentiated from nullity (nothing). Negativity has been widely used by Bion to clarify states of un-thinking, either by using a language of unsaying, by studying the negation of psychoanalytical elements, or by imagining a Negative Grid. We can deepen Bion's ideas by rescuing Hegel's pioneering contributions and through André Green's work on the negative. Four clinical vignettes are introduced to illustrate the constant conjunction between void, negativity and catastrophic change.

Palabras clave : void; negativity; catastrophic change; erasure; apophatic language.

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