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Commentary on “Bion's Grid: A Tool for Transformation” by Marilyn Charles

Commentary on “Bion's Grid: A Tool for Transformation” by Marilyn Charles notational system that is inherently extra-territorial to the content it seeks to transform. It corresponds in many ways to the "Krebs cycle of the intermediate metabolism of carbohydrates" in biochemistry. It tracks the intermediate "metabolism" of thought in the psyche. The format for his grid is based upon the cartesian coordinates, with an ordinate and abscissa, the former of which is the vertical column and the latter the horizontal column. He used the former to designate the descent of thoughts in terms of growing sophistication and abstraction, whereas he used the latter column to designate the progressive sophistication and abstraction of thinking Thus, in normal thinking the progression of a thought being thought about would be marked on the grid as a diagonal line descending from the top left side to the bottom right side. It should be noted parenthetically that Bion was perhaps the first person to note that thoughts originate independently of the mind that thinks them, that is, thoughts originate first and require the development of a mind to think them. The grid designated this division. Bion designates these aboriginal thoughts as, "thoughts without a thinker." It is important to realize that Bion appropriated some http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis & Dynamic Psychiatry Guilford Press

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10.1521/jaap.30.3.447.21974
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notational system that is inherently extra-territorial to the content it seeks to transform. It corresponds in many ways to the "Krebs cycle of the intermediate metabolism of carbohydrates" in biochemistry. It tracks the intermediate "metabolism" of thought in the psyche. The format for his grid is based upon the cartesian coordinates, with an ordinate and abscissa, the former of which is the vertical column and the latter the horizontal column. He used the former to designate the descent of thoughts in terms of growing sophistication and abstraction, whereas he used the latter column to designate the progressive sophistication and abstraction of thinking Thus, in normal thinking the progression of a thought being thought about would be marked on the grid as a diagonal line descending from the top left side to the bottom right side. It should be noted parenthetically that Bion was perhaps the first person to note that thoughts originate independently of the mind that thinks them, that is, thoughts originate first and require the development of a mind to think them. The grid designated this division. Bion designates these aboriginal thoughts as, "thoughts without a thinker." It is important to realize that Bion appropriated some

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Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis & Dynamic Psychiatry – Guilford Press

Published: Sep 1, 2002

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