St. Augustine and Wilfred Bion. SIG Cohort

This presentation, largely based on clinical experience and theoretical background published previously (Cocoli Bowen, 2023), focuses attention on the possibility of the two members of the analytic couple to reach a level of connectedness that is neither experienced nor expected until the very moment it occurs. Faced with direct reality, the analysand’s self-reflective ability expands and deepens, mysteriously and fruitfully. Similarly, the analyst also lives through the intensity of the moment in unprecedented ways, realizing unknown knowledge. This reflection begins in the psychoanalytic area as worked out by psychoanalyst Dr. Wilfred Bion and explores the Catholic intellectual tradition laid out by St. Augustine. It inevitably points towards the unrivaled Augustinian reflection on the meaning and depth of memory.