Abstract

SANDLER, Paulo Cesar. Twentieth-third o’clock Train: Bion and Poetry. Ide (São Paulo) [online]. 2022, vol.44, n.74, pp.109-130.  Epub Aug 02, 2024. ISSN 0101-3106.  https://doi.org/10.5935/0101-3106.v44n74.11.

The present study tries to isolate and describe two of the methods that all of us, human beings, have at our disposal to elaborate approximations toward material and psychic reality; and follows on focusing, specifically, W.R.Bion’s contributions to psychoanalysis. The two methods are: science and art. They were developed in the last two thousand years. Both were elaborated under different vertices, originating from the same human need, qualified by Aristotle - a physician, member of a respected Greek family of physicians - as an “urgency to know”. Both methods were equally valued by Freud, with no superiority given to none, but is is clear that he qualified psychoanalysis as a scientific activity. He reserved to art at least three auxiliary functions: inspirational; communicative and illustrative, in the form of metaphorical and metonymic analogies. A fundamental difference between science and art, as far they concern to psychoanalysis, is that the two former have a basic and primarily group function; in obverse, psychoanalysis, a heir to medicine, has a basic and primarily individual function. Namely: attention and care for the sufferings and vicissitudes that typify human nature.Science and Art also provided at least two basic tools to the psychoanalytic practice: (i) self-criticism; (ii) verbal formulations. The article describes the literary and poetic sources that inspired, illustrated and helped Bion to communicate his work, in written form, through verbal formulations.

Keywords : psychoanalysis; science; art; hallucinosis; dream-work.

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