W.R. Bion and Literary Modernism

W.R.比昂与文学现代主义

• 批准号: 2764417
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2764417
• 关键词: W.R.; Bion; Literary; Modernism

My research is a medical humanities project, focused on the late, literary writing of the psychoanalyst W.R. Bion. Highly regarded for his work into the psychoanalytic understanding of psychosis, my research argues that an appreciation of Bion's late, literary output is essential for a full and comprehensive understanding of the psychoanalyst's work. Bion consistently sought new ways to better communicate the unfolding emotional reality of a psychoanalytic session; he broke decisively with accepted conventions of clinical writing, such as the extended case history, to produce a series of increasingly formally experimental texts more capable of conveying his mature theories. Accordingly, my project recentres Bion's critically neglected psychoanalytic 'science fiction' novel "A Memoir of the Future" as the culmination of his career-long investigation into psychotic states of mind and their psychotherapeutic treatment. Moreover, by examining the ways in which he employs his own experiences in the Memoir-notably those as a tank commander on the Western Front-my project addresses important questions about the complex interrelationship between personal memoir, clinical theory and experimental style within Bion's writing. In addition to examining how it can illuminate Bion's clinical thought, my research also interrogates the Memoir's status as a piece of late modernist literature in its own right. The Memoir has historically been eschewed by both psychoanalysts-protesting its obscurity as a clinically irrelevant text-and literary historians-for whom Bion's relevance lies only in his peripheral relation to Samuel Beckett as the playwright's one-time psychotherapist. Taking its impetus from the New Modernist Studies' ongoing expansion of the field beyond its traditional temporal and spatial boundaries, my work addresses this deficit in the literature-identifying Bion's interest as a globally mobile writer/theoretician, deeply engaged with the legacies of high modernism.

我的研究是一个医学人文项目，重点是精神分析学家W.R.比昂高度重视他的工作到精神分析的精神病的理解，我的研究认为，欣赏比翁的后期，文学作品是必不可少的精神分析师的工作充分和全面的理解。比昂一直在寻找新的方法，以更好地传达精神分析会议中不断展开的情感现实;他果断地打破了临床写作的公认惯例，例如扩展的病历，以产生一系列越来越正式的实验文本，更能传达他的成熟理论。因此，我的项目最近将Bion被严重忽视的精神分析“科幻小说”小说“未来回忆录”作为他职业生涯长期调查精神病状态及其心理治疗的高潮。此外，通过研究他在回忆录中使用自己的经验的方式，特别是那些作为西线坦克指挥官的经验，我的项目解决了关于个人回忆录，临床理论和实验风格之间复杂的相互关系的重要问题。除了研究它如何能够阐明比翁的临床思想，我的研究也质疑回忆录作为一个晚现代主义文学作品本身的地位。《回忆录》在历史上一直被精神分析学家和文学史学家所回避--他们抗议它作为一个与临床无关的文本的晦涩难懂--对他们来说，比昂的相关性只在于他与剧作家的一次性心理治疗师塞缪尔·贝克特的边缘关系。从新现代主义研究的持续扩展领域超越其传统的时间和空间界限的动力，我的工作解决了文学识别比翁的兴趣作为一个全球移动的作家/理论家，深深地参与了高度现代主义的遗产这一赤字。