ABSTRACT
Wilfred R. Bion elaborated a view of the psyche as potentially overwhelmed by internal and external stimuli, raw data, which must be psychically metabolized so that it can acquire subjective meaning and become the building blocks of thought. The goals of analysis in post-Bionian Field Theory are transformational rather than informational. A central postulate in post-Bionian Field Theory is the assumption that in the analytic situation, the presence and activity of the analyst produces a continuing source of disturbance for the patient, which elicits the patient’s ongoing response. This means that there is always a perspective from which the Field offers constant feedback about how the patient is unconsciously experiencing the analyst’s presence, activity and the analytic situation. It is important to note that the specific contents and meaning of this feedback are often enigmatic, obscure and subject to the interpretation of a given analyst and/or given analyst-patient pair.
