Beckett and Bion : the (im)patient voice in psychotherapy and literature / Ian S. Miller ; with contributions by Kay Souter.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; Introduction; PART I THE CONTEXT AND EVENTS OF BECKETT'S PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH BION; CHAPTER ONE Presenting problems; CHAPTER TWO Proust as metapsychology; CHAPTER THREE The first year of treatment: 1934; CHAPTER FOUR Year two: 1935; CHAPTER FIVE Broadening the context of this psychotherapy; CHAPTER SIX Beckett's Bion and Bion's Bion; PART II AN INTERPRETATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF BECKETT'S LITERARY DEVELOPMENT AND BION'S LATER CLINICAL THEORIES; CHAPTER SEVEN Free association: Beckett's private theatre; CHAPTER EIGHT The novellas: Part One.

CHAPTER NINE The novellas: Part TwoCHAPTER TEN Three essays on "the trilogy"; CHAPTER ELEVEN The psychology of characters; CHAPTER TWELVE Reaching the limit offree association; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Patient Zero: learning from the Beckett experience; Conclusion; REFERENCES; INDEX.

This book focuses on Samuel Beckett's psychoanalytic psychotherapy with W.R. Bion as a central aspect both of Beckett's and Bion's radical transformations of literature and psychoanalysis. The recent publication of Beckett's correspondence during the period of his psychotherapy with Bion provides a starting place for an imaginative reconstruction of this psychotherapy, culminating with Bion's famous invitation to his patient to dinner and a lecture by C.G. Jung. Following from the course of this psychotherapy, Miller and Souter trace the development of Beckett's radical use of clinical psycho.

English.

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