...Hanna Segal; Jeffrey M. Perl Segal traces the development and use of the psychoanalytic concept of ambivalence from Eugen Bleuler to Freud to Melanie Klein and Wilfred Bion. Segal’s own argument, ultimately, is that ambivalence is an achievement rather than a problem, though only when...

... in the context of an active relationship with caretakers. Unformulated primary experience—or what Wilfred Bion termed β elements and researchers now call implicit or procedural memory—becomes labeled and thus known (or α ele- ments) only through the containing and processing...

... as real cannot be spoken of (CU 152), Bollas nevertheless claims that it is part of the phenomenol- ogy of this object relation: the relation of consciousness to an internal object that is sensible, that can be felt, even though it has no voice (CU 152). Just as Wilfred Bion argued that the need...