Recién Chapter one

..Turning a Kleinian/Bionian tide away  from American ego psychology
By Joseph Aguayo
Reviewer:
Dra. Elizabeth Herrmann Belloso
Interpreter Sociologist Psychoanalyst
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Joseph Aguayo remembers in his contribution  the analític clima in which Grotstein came to his analytic maturity.

I have in this context to remember some striking similarities that occur nowadays in a new "climate" the incursion into the psychoanalytic field . A " Catastrophic Change ( page 5) in those times Bion arrived in Los Angeles emerging from being loading up with honour that he had sunk without a trace.
Times of Troubles in Los Angeles (1973) during the introduction of Klein's ideas growing out of Ego Kohut focuses
Rival ríes and feuds (page 7) over candidatos and methods of working
With a strong interest in Kleinian ideas what causes them to be labelled "desviant"or " heretical" and bewilderment on the eclectic mix of British Object Relation theory and American ego psychology.Let's observe similarities.

I want to center in my review on the differences Melanie Klein introduces with her thought about States of minds, positions, projective identifications and projective processes . Ideas regarding psychotic states of mind and psychotic nuclei . Differences in the theory she developed on Oedipal theories , early states of Oedipal manifestations in infants and so on.
Bion focused on mental positions  but principally developed what he observed in projective identifications as projective mechanism and the analysis of psychotic states of mind.

Grotstein introduced a completely new idea about Transformation in O a paper he published at the first Bion Congress in Turin. (1997?)
This is particularly very important because he shifts from a pathological focus on psychosis as mental illness to view mental psychotic states of mind as effects that O produces in mind particularly in infants who do not receive sufficient shield and containment in early infancy .Producing orphans as Grotstein describes the effects of O, versus a definition more vague by Bion as Origin.
Transformation in O means in essence for Grotstein transformations in mental states that he describes in his book "A Beam into..."
I want in this context to refer to the experience having been invited by James Grotstein to Los Angeles 2001 as to give a seminar on Kleinian work with children, my job in Venezuela . But many things occurred in this visit that can be resumed as effects of O in a community little prepared for such a heretical "twin" a Jewish Psychoanalyst not at all common, (Someone is morsing "pay" and I am responding just now :"you pay for my work of transformation I do and my ideas I am developing since years) and a woman from Venezuela who had met early 1996 in a complete different playfull climate and met now first time in person.  This woman a venezolanian born with Venezuelanian mother and Originally German Father with a fiscal aspect (defense) that can not negate her German roots, my person had an impact in this particular community Los Angeles that I will not describe now but it let to postpone my seminar . One other woman literally list her consciousness and nearly fall when she met with me in the Hotel. Grotstein aw very impressed but also sad. Facing O and providing containment before infront of O, don't know what image emerged in this woman when she saw me and on the other hand it was for me the first time to be around so many Jewish people . In Venezuela the theme " Jewish - German" was never a problem. Since I can think .
To get back to the starting point ; Bion's O , Grotstein Transformation in O his facility to change climate by travelling navigating in the net.
My person and him and the impact of O.
So I think the center of our common work is this : O produces an impact in such a way it can cause psychotic mental states , fragmentation and splitting . ( The latter was the theme of my first paper)  A mother' a father's psychoanalysts task is therefore principally to provide containment and shield to O.
So our common work us principally if you can't modify circumstances of truth (important issue in my hole life) you can at least defend from O coming  from a group (I will reserve which group ) with "cientific" interests , you can defend from the other's O in a group that is growingly interconnecting causing " emotional storms " following Bion. And you can principally grow out of mental states related to O if you have access to truth, that following Bion can't be changed and following Grotstein in 2002 beta elements can't be changed into Alfa elements . Neither can be born a common O from a psychoanalytical  couple and the patient as indicated Brown.  But you didn't deal with the effects of O within certain limitations but certain and effect full exitosament. You can face your and the others O and transform both .
You transform in O facing truth and O transforms you .
It depends on the group's generosity , lake of malignity , comprehension and willingness to exist and to tolerate the unknowable developing I front of you the growing group of things not visible for mortal eyes.Freud was very doubtful skeptical about human qualities he lived in a climate that favoured such apprehension .
But nowadays what happens nowadays ?  I am filled with doubts last night's terrible experience facing the restart today of space X expectations and reactions on thirds. Human limitations in anonymity are  terribly primitive and salvage when rivalries and feuds in mainstream.
Please leave you comments in a screen a beta screen that can improve a bad job as it is described in Bion's memoirs of future . The possibility not to be exposed .
Autora: Elizabeth Herrmann Belloso
A contributor waiting for a grown up group in which to be able to exist together to the most beloved persons I have.
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Studies psychoanalysis since 1989.