Main description:

- integrates relevant philosophy in a way that makes it understandable and palatable to psychoanalytic readers - there isn't much direct competition to this book; it's an original contribution

Contents:

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Absence and Future 2. Hallucination as Pathology and as Entree into the Collective Unconscious 3. Bion's Theory of Thinking, Absence, Container/Contained. Projective Identification and Hallucination 4. Absence and Precursor to Pathological Organisation and Equally as Basic to Psychic Life 5. Negative Capability 6. Experience and Whitehead: "Philosophy is a lure for feeling" (Whitehead, 1929) 7. Whitehead and Heraclitus: Permanence, Flux and Novelty 8. Being, Becoming and Modes of Being 9. Quaternio 10. Formlessness 11. Interrelations Index