Bion is known for his interest in philosophy, particularly in Kant and
also in the philosophy of science of the mid-20th century. But the use
he made of it and the relevance to his thought as a psychoanalyst are
hard to get hold of, being obscured by his notoriously opaque prose and
by the inevitable difficulty of engagement with the Critical Philosophy.
I shall argue that Bion's attempt to draw on philosophy of science to
regularise psychoanalytic theorising is straightforward, and that to
understand his attempted use of Kant he is to be understood, as he
himself insisted, as advancing a model. I consider what sort or sorts
of model he is employing and how this may have contributed to his 'guru'
status within psychoanalysis.
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