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- Title
מפגש בין ייצוג תבוני לייצוג תמוני ) של ביון The Gridבאספקלריית המארג (
- Authors
פולק, תמי
- Abstract
The Grid – the well-known and central theoretical-clinical “apparatus" developed during the middle phase of Bion's mature clinical thinking – proposes a conceptual matrix for investigating the emergence and functioning of thoughts and the development of mind. Bion's matrix or grid offers a graphic embodiment of the relationship between these two axes, as he envisioned it, and he preferred that a copy of the Grid would appear at the frontispiece of his main books, providing a kind of road-map for the reader. In this paper, I share the way in which I use the Grid's graphic manifestation as a basis for forming a pictorial representation of clinical material in my work with patients suffering from serious mental impairment or failure. I am referring to cases where the clinician finds herself struggling with the inadequacy of “customary" conceptual insight, and desperate for a sense of the capacity to begin from the beginning, as it were, and work with pictorial, pre- and paraverbal representations. In revisiting the clinical hours during treatment, I found myself possessed by numerous, essentially different, possible picture-like images, thus rendering the clinical application of the Grid seemingly impossible. Bion once addressed a similar experience and stated: “I shall simply take these as two different reports of the same event, without giving preference to one over the other." Despite Bion's “simple" recommendation, these kinds of phenomena continued to induce significant anxiety in me for a while. Eventually, by containing the anxiety of not knowing, the importance of the mapping became more clear to me; that is, I realized that the mapping was important not so much for its final product, but rather for the process, for the struggle to map. I thus accepted the multitude of pictorial representations as permitting a better acquaintance with my own subjectivity at the most appropriate depth or dimension needed for the clinical interactions. Soon, I found myself playing with the pictorial images as Grid-like scenarios, in which the formal-conceptual matrix provided background music to the emergence of intuitively accessible sensory-motor images. I emphasize that these Grid-pictures are not a byproduct of sensual metaphors discussed during therapy. Rather, these images are an independent product, an expression of my renewed interpretive confluence with a specific state of being-with that is tailor-made, so to speak, for that therapist-patient experience. In discussing these ideas, I note Bion's view that “...the value of the records lay not in their recording of the past but in their depicting a sensuous likeness which evoked a feeling of the future." I believe that this comment sheds new light on my departure from using the Grid as the basis for conceptualization and, instead, using it more playfully, and perhaps even more archaically, as an aesthetic potential-space that enabled a process of being released from ‟K," approaching ‟O.
- Publication
Ma'arag: Israeli Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2010, Vol 1, p241
- ISSN
2413-290X
- Publication type
Article