Beckett and Bion: the (im)patient voice in psychotherapy and literature

This text focuses on Samuel Beckett's psychoanalytic psychotherapy with W.

R. Bion as a central aspect both of Beckett's and Bion's radical transformations of literature and psychoanalysis.

The recent publication of Beckett's correspondence during the period of his psychotherapy with Bion provides a starting place for an imaginative reconstruction of this psychotherapy, culminating with Bion's famous invitation to his patient to dinner and a lecture by C.G.

Jung.