why bion left london for LA
in 1965 at the age of seventy?
yes, why?
yet, why not?
No one is certain why, nor did Bion really divulge why he had taken this major relocation. When asked, he would characteristically answer, half in jest, "I was so loaded down with honours in London that I nearly sank without a trace."
Rumours began to abound (mainly from London, sources confidential) that, although he was highly respected for his many previous brilliant contributions, particularly the earlier ones on psychosis and on theories of thinking, which had been highly innovative extensions of Melanie Klein's work, his newer independent and creative ideas were held by many to be too "undisciplined" (vide supra), too radical, and too "mystical". (Annie Reiner, 2016, kindle location 4789/5693)
O was first published in Transformation in 1965 (p. 13) and then in Attention and Interpretation in 1970 (p. 14 et al). (ibid, 4667/5693)
yes, why?
yet, why not?
No one is certain why, nor did Bion really divulge why he had taken this major relocation. When asked, he would characteristically answer, half in jest, "I was so loaded down with honours in London that I nearly sank without a trace."
Rumours began to abound (mainly from London, sources confidential) that, although he was highly respected for his many previous brilliant contributions, particularly the earlier ones on psychosis and on theories of thinking, which had been highly innovative extensions of Melanie Klein's work, his newer independent and creative ideas were held by many to be too "undisciplined" (vide supra), too radical, and too "mystical". (Annie Reiner, 2016, kindle location 4789/5693)
O was first published in Transformation in 1965 (p. 13) and then in Attention and Interpretation in 1970 (p. 14 et al). (ibid, 4667/5693)
