27/08/2025
*Just released from The New Library of Psychoanalysis!*
‘The Limits of Interpretation’ by Giuseppe Civitarese
An excerpt from Chapter 5:
"We should not understand intuition as an idea, however brilliant and effective, that comes from who knows where; or think that it cannot somehow be attributable to a reverie or transformation in dream or in hallucinosis. How else could it be “disciplined”? What kind of exercises could ever increase the analyst’s capacity for intuition?…
…the reading of intuition in Bion that I am offering here is endorsed by the image of the poet he uses to talk about it: “It is rather like the poet who is able to express something in a way that draws the attention of the reader to what he might otherwise not be aware of.” Like poetry, dreaming expresses the ineffable, understood here simply as intentionality or affective intelligence of things and, for this reason, not translatable into words. So, intuiting the truth of what happens in the session means, to use an expression of Freud’s, trusting in the mind’s poetic function."
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