W.R. Bion and Literary Modernism

我的研究是一个医学人文项目，主要研究精神分析学家W.R. Bion的晚期文学作品。我的研究认为，对比昂晚期的文学作品的欣赏，对于充分和全面地理解这位精神分析学家的工作至关重要。Bion一直在寻找新的方法来更好地传达精神分析过程中正在展开的情感现实；他果断地打破了公认的临床写作惯例，如延长的病例史，产生了一系列越来越正式的实验文本，更有能力传达他成熟的理论。因此，我的项目最近以Bion被严重忽视的精神分析“科幻”小说《未来回忆录》为中心，作为他职业生涯中对精神状态及其心理治疗的研究的高潮。此外，通过研究他在回忆录中运用自己经历的方式——尤其是作为西线坦克指挥官的经历——我的项目解决了比昂写作中个人回忆录、临床理论和实验风格之间复杂相互关系的重要问题。除了研究它如何阐明比昂的临床思想外，我的研究还考察了《回忆录》本身作为一部晚期现代主义文学作品的地位。历史上，《回忆录》一直被精神分析学家和文学历史学家所回避——他们抗议它作为临床无关文本的晦涩性——对他们来说，比昂的相关性仅仅在于他与塞缪尔·贝克特的边缘性关系，他曾是剧作家的心理治疗师。从新现代主义研究超越其传统的时间和空间界限的领域的持续扩张中获得动力，我的作品解决了文学中的这一缺陷-确定Bion作为全球流动作家/理论家的兴趣，深入参与高度现代主义的遗产。

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.