Description
`Any Psychoanalyst must find his own way and come upon well-known and well-established theories through experiences of his own realisations.' So says W. R. Bion in his Commentary in Second Thoughts. In First Thoughts, Jayne Hankinson does just this. She presents a personal account of her own `realisations' and discoveries during an attempt to give thought to `beginnings'. She explores the meaning and relevance of creation myths, leading to a deep realisation of how they unconsciously represent and shape much of our lives, even today. This exploration meanders through the Garden of Eden, leaving with a realisation that there is an `Adam' and `Eve' aspect in dynamic tension within each of our minds. This serpentine journey becomes a `hermeneutic loop' in which dissatisfaction with parts of psychoanalytic theory leads to an engagement in the phenomena of beginnings and a consequent reappraisal and reinterpretation, via a closer look at Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, and Wilfred Bion to formulate an understanding of what their `first thoughts' may be. The book ends with the author's own creation myth reshaped and a deeper awareness of how important `beginnings' are.
Binding: Paperback / softback
Binding: Paperback / softback