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The scope of this work is to synopsize, synthesize, extend, and to challenge Bion in a reader-friendly manner. Presenting the most important legacy-ideas for psychoanalysisthe ideas that are on the cutting edge of the field that need to be known by the mental health profession at largeit highlights and defines the broader and deeper implications of his works.
A Beam of Intense Darkness presents Bions ideas faithfully and also uses his ideas as launching pads for the authors conjectures about where Bion's ideas point. This includes such ideas as the Language of Achievement, reverie, truth, O, and transformationsin, of, and from it, but also L, H, and K linkages (to show how Bion rerouted Freuds instinctual drives to emotions), container/contained , Bions ideas on dreaming, becoming, thoughts without a thinker, the Grid, his erasure of the distinction between Freuds, primary and secondary processes and the pleasure and reality principles, reversible perspective, shifting vertices, binocular vision, contact-barrier, the replacement of consciousness and unconsciousness with infinity and finiteness, Bions use of models, his distinction between mentalization and thinking, as well as many other items.
