The question that has prompted this article could be formulated as follows: what are the vicissitudes of the analyst’s subjectivity in the bi-personal models and, more specifically, in the Bion field model? Using a clinical vignette, the author shows his own “toy box” mainly the way he uses reverie and the interplay between plot and characters in the session.
Pavia Bion-Field T Group The six articles hereby presented are variations on the theme of "Authenticity" written by a group of psychoanalysts who have shared a supervision experience with Antonino Ferro and who in the past ten years, under his leadership, have begun working on theoretical and clinical aspects arising from a particular reading of Bion's thought and the model of the analytical field. What stands out in Bion's model is the way in which the unconscious is conceived, i.e. as a psychoanalytical function of the mind, the importance of the waking dream thought, the analytic pathway imagined as an expansion of one's capacity to feel, think, dream. The field model leads to a stark choice in considering the analytic path as bi-personal and the interpretative effort as the result of four-handed writing. The cross-breeding of some concepts drawn from narratology has played a key role in the construction of the post-bionian oneiric model, particularly the character theory and dream interpretation, as well as the principle that any communication from the patient should be thought of as an "Opera Aperta" (Eco, 1962). A summary of the themes dealt with in the four published books is a good way of tracing the development of the Pavia group. In the first book produced by the group, in 2007, Sognare l'analisi [Dreaming Analysis] the focus was on the clinical developments in Bion's thought. The importance of the waking dream thought and of reverie, the
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