Interpretation as Freud's specific action, and Bion's container ‐contained

Translations of summary This is a paper showing how a concept central to the work of Wilfred Bion, and one of Klein's important recommendations concerning the practice of analysis with adults and small children, can both be seen in the light of Freud's earliest formulation of the origin of anxiety and the mother's first responses to her infant in distress. In the paper I suggest that these clinically influential concepts of Klein and Bion show an underlying consistency and affinity with Freud's early ideas about the management of anxiety in the mother‐infant relationship, described in two of his pre‐psychoanalytic writings, How Anxiety Originates (1894b), and The Project for a Scientific Psychology (1950 [1895]). The specific mode of operation of psychoanalytic interpretation is clarified by the comparisons made, with no attempt to suggest that Klein or Bion based their concepts upon these particular early formulations of Freud's. L'interprétation en tant qu'action spécifique de Freud et les notions de contenant‐contenu de Bion L'auteur de cet article montre comment l'un des concepts majeurs de l’œuvre de Wilfred Bion et l'une des recommandations importantes de Klein au sujet de la pratique de l'analyse avec les adultes et les jeunes enfants, peuvent être considérés tous deux à la lumière de la toute première formulation de Freud relative à l'origine de l'angoisse et aux premières réponses de la mère à la détresse du nourrisson. L'auteur suggère que c...
Source: The International Journal of Psychoanalysis - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: Psychoanalytic Theory & Technique Source Type: research