The Tiger at the gate: reflections on “Emotional turbulence”, by Bion
Comments on the paper “Emotional Turbulence”, by Bion
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Turbulence, Bion, Unconcious, Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic interpretationAbstract
Bion’s concept of emotional turbulence constitutes a conflation of two of the major ontological, phenomenological, and epistemological themes he has brought to our attention, “evolving ‘O’” and proto-emotions as that aspect of ourselves that intersects with “O” in order to mediate it. Emotional turbulence is what Freud really had in mind when he spoke of the id as a “seething cauldron.” Bion’s formulations about emotional turbulence, when considered in the context of its interface with “O,” constitutes the most advanced and profound reformulation of the unconscious to date.
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