Bion's Vertices

On Truth and Lies

Tomasz Fortuna
Karnac
392 pages
ISBN: 9781800132115
January 2024

This book intended for the practicing psychoanalyst, is divided into three parts which investigate the truth/lie domain, emotional change and growth, and creativity in relation to truth and lies, and show its relevance in clinical practice. The wide-ranging discussions include chapters on aesthetic processes in poetry and psychoanalytic thought, knowledge, representation, misunderstandings, chaos, perversions, propaganda, the analyst's mind, the protective function of lying, and racialisation in relational context.