Editing Wilfred Bion (section)

==Late Bion==

"For the later Bion, the psychoanalytic encounter was itself a site of turbulence, 'a mental space for further ideas which may yet be developed'."<ref name="Jacobus, p. 258">Jacobus, p. 258</ref> In his unorthodox quest to maintain such "mental space", Bion "spent the final years of his long and distinguished professional life [writing] a futuristic trilogy in which he is answerable to no one but himself, ''A Memoir of the Future''."<ref name="Jacobus, p. 258"/>

If we accept that "Bion introduced a new form of pedagogy in his writings...[via] the density and non-linearity of his prose",<ref>Grotstein, ''Beam'' p. 17</ref> it comes perhaps to a peak here in what he himself termed "a fictitious account of psychoanalysis including an artificially constructed dream ... science fiction".<ref>Bion, quoted in Jacobus, p. 261</ref> We may conclude at least that he achieved his stated goal therein: "To prevent someone who KNOWS from filling the empty space".<ref>Bion, quoted in Jacobus, p. 259</ref>