Oppenheim L
Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043, USA.
Int J Psychoanal. 2001 Aug;82(Pt 4):767-84. doi: 10.1516/0020757011601181.
Taking issue with the notion of a profound reciprocal influence of Samuel Beckett and his analyst, Wilfred Bion, based on supposition all too often passed as fact, the author refutes the idea that Bion's 'Attacks on linking' was based on his later-to-be famous patient. Choosing, rather, to apply Bion's concepts of transformation and assaults on verbal thought to Beckett's remarkably visual and highly dissociative writing, she finds in the analyst's work a means of exploring a startling preoccupation with object representation and an anxiety of remembrance constant throughout the writer's texts. Is this fixation attributable only to aesthetic strategy or does it say something about the writer's own inner representational world? Relating the writer's obsession to Bion's concepts and, moreover, its dissociative expression to the decathexis and blank mourning explored by Green, she uncovers within it a reflection of the kind of evocative memory disturbance identified with primary dyadic dysfunction. This application of Bion and Green to Beckett veers distinctly less towards psychohistory, however, than to how sublimation has rendered this object-relational failure an aesthetic success.
基于常常被当作事实的假设，作者对塞缪尔·贝克特与其分析师威尔弗雷德·比昂之间存在深刻相互影响这一观点提出质疑，反驳了比昂的《对联系的攻击》是基于他后来成名的患者这一观点。相反，她选择将比昂的转化概念和对言语思维的攻击应用于贝克特极具视觉性且高度解离的作品中，在这位分析师的作品中找到了一种探索贯穿这位作家文本始终的对客体表征的惊人关注以及记忆焦虑的方法。这种执着仅仅归因于审美策略，还是关乎这位作家自身内在的表征世界呢？她将这位作家的痴迷与比昂的概念联系起来，此外，将其解离性表达与格林所探讨的去贯注和空白哀悼联系起来，在其中发现了与原发性二元功能障碍相关的那种唤起性记忆障碍的反映。然而，将比昂和格林的理论应用于贝克特，与其说是走向精神分析历史，不如说是探讨升华如何使这种客体关系的失败成为一种审美成功。
