In his book, Ogden succinctly articulates how he thinks about psychoanalysis and provides a detailed clinical example. He asserts that each client unconsciously (and ambivalently) seeks help to dream his own “undreamed and unimaginable dreams” and “nightmares” (dreams that are interrupted when the pain of emotional experience exceeds his capacity). In other words, the aim is not to have the person analyze himself, but to seek a cure for his pain. He used Bion to explain this situation better: Unimaginable dreams are understood as manifestations of psychotic and nonpsychic aspects of personality; interrupted dreams are seen as reflections of other neurotic and non-psychotic parts of the personality. Here he talked about how the “Alpha and Beta” functions affect the dream state. Alpha elements; as unconscious memory, Beta elements; defined as mental noise. Insufficiency of alpha function; He joined Bion, explaining that the patient was unable to dream and therefore ‘cannot sleep’.
The analyst’s task is to create conditions that allow the patient to dream dreams that were previously unimaginable and interrupted. A significant part of the analyst’s involvement in the patient’s dreaming takes the form of the analyst’s dreaming experience. The analyst’s use of language contributes significantly to the possibility that the patient will be able to use his own experience of what the analyst is saying for dreaming purposes, thereby imagining himself more fully.
He stated that Freud cannot be understood without Klein and Freud without Klein. He questioned and criticized the importance of chronological development in the development of ideas. He expanded these views by taking Freud’s book “Mourning and Melancholy” as an example. (Noting that there is something similar to Klein’s ideas in Mourning and Melancholy). It has revealed the differences and similarities between Mourning and Melancholy, and offered a much better explanation of Freud’s book (in my opinion). He made a connection between the internal object that Freud talked about in this book and Klein’s internal objects, and stated that Freud inadvertently narrowed down the importance of the word “object”. Bion’s concept of “container-contained” was closely associated with Winnicott’s “holding” and he almost included Winnicott’s views in his book.
What Is Truth and Whose Idea Was It? In the section titled, he examined the appearances of truth in science and psychoanalysis and stated that the truth corresponds to Plato’s Ideas, Kant’s Thing in Itself, Lacan’s Record of the Real, and that Bion named the truth as “It”. Thinking thoughts that express change the thought itself … rather, it is equally true when we change the truth, in the act of giving shape to the human mind to what is appropriate to an emotional experience. (Page:94)
In the last part, he stated that he likes psychoanalytic writing very much, and he talked about how my writing should be, the various difficulties of writing, how Freud and Winnicott mastered it, and Borges talked about it.
