title: Notes on Bion's "memory and desire".
abstract: Memory and desire, along with understanding and preconception, are to be abandoned (really, suspended) for the analyst to be ever open to unexpected emerging from the analysand's unconscious. The discipline that Bion suggests allows the analyst to be open to his/her own native feelings as an emotion-receptor and analytic instrument.
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Grotstein
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D004739:England; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history*; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory