Abstract

MION, Carmen C.. Observation and intuition in psychoanalysis: a dual perspective. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2024, vol.58, n.1, pp.117-128.  Epub Nov 29, 2024. ISSN 0486-641X.  https://doi.org/10.69904/0486-641x.v58n1.09.

In one of his last seminars, Bion states that he was not interested in psychoanalytic theories or any other theories, but in “the most important thing, which I call ‘the real thing’, the practice of analysis, the practice of treatment, the practice of communication”. In this article, the author develops the concepts of observation and intuition as belonging to a larger theme, psychoanalytic communication, restricting herself to the specificity of the analyst’s “listening” to their analysand’s communications in the analysis room, and their instruments for this: the sense and perception organs, including here the Freudian concept of the conscious as an organ of perception. She proposes that these psychoanalyst’s functions, observation and intuition, act in synchrony, in a similar way to the biological model of “binocular vision” used by Bion as an approximation to his concept of contact barrier and interaction between conscious and unconscious. She starts with an artificial separation between both functions, to bring them together in the end.

Keywords : intuition; observation; binocular vision; communication in clinical practice; unconscious perception.

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