Abstract

KORBIVCHER, Celia Fix. Emotion and Bion's referential: emotion, non-emotion, and analyst's language. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2019, vol.53, n.1, pp. 181-193. ISSN 0486-641X.

In this paper, the author examines the notion of emotion under the vertex of Bion's theories. Among patient situations, she studies cases that involve strong emotion and situations of lack of emotion, which are specific to primitive states of mind - autistic states and unintegrated states. Inspired by Bion's Theory of Transformation (Bion, 1965), particularly transformations in "O", the author develops ideas on the type of language the analyst should use when dealing with these mental states. She proposes that the analyst's language for the access to these patients' mental states should be a "language of emotion", i.e. the analyst "becomes the emotion of the moment". And, from the author's perspective, this language is specific to transformations in "O". Clinical material is presented in order to illustrate the raised issues and stimulate discussion.

Keywords : emotion; non-emotion; analyst's language; Bion's theory; transformations in O.

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