In this illuminating volume, Rodrigo Barahona takes up the question of transformations in hallucinosis in Wilfred Bion-s work.
The book discusses how the analyst-s functioning, his receptivity and ability to make sense out of what is unconsciously occurring between himself and the patient, and the ability to find words to represent it - the basic psychoanalytic task - is enhanced when the distinction between two basic types of transformations in hallucinosis can be borne in mind: transformations in positive hallucinosis and transformations in negative hallucinosis. In the the psychoanalytic literature, this distinction has not been formally established, with the general term -transformations in hallucinosis- used for both processes. This book cuts a clearer distinction between the two, describing their distinct though overlapping metapsychologies, and charts the clinical implications. In making these distinctions, the book draws on Andr-reen-s work, arguing for a continuity be
