Process Thought: A Comparison of Wilfred Bion and Alfred North Whitehead

The idea of comparing Whitehead with Bion was born when I first met Whitehead's idea, "the fallacy of misplaced concreteness" (FMC), and felt immediately that I knew it from my knowledge of Bion's work. The paper begins by indicating some of the elements in Alfred North Whitehead's "process philosophy." There is a brief survey of object relations theory, particularly Kleinian psychodynamics, as introduction to the aspect of Wilfred Bion's work which explored the nature of thought. The unconscious processes he named "truth" and "lie" in thinking are identified. Comparison between these two thinkers begins from common ground, the notions of process, fallacious or truthful, in thought, and looks at the differences of perspective each brought to the problems of methodology in thinking. It is shown that each accepts that "true" thought is open to query and interrogation, and that it is not possible to know whether or not a particular thought is "true," as conscious thought cannot access primary undistorted perception of an objective world. A claim is made that a particular conscious discipline in mental awareness, akin to the use of countertransference in psychodynamic thought, will however increase the probability that a thought process is "thinking truly" rather than thinking in a fallacious way.     

光明与黑暗之间的心路历程——重读艾芜的《山峡中》

在较为细致解读艾芜小说《山峡中》的基础上,文章分析了该文本的显在与潜在意义、由显在和潜在意义形成的文本分裂、以及文本分裂感如何在很大程度被消解的原因,进而认为《山峡中》是一个关于现代知识分子生存意义的故事,一个寻找内在精神家园的故事。     

《晚安,苔丝狄蒙娜（早安,朱丽叶）》的精神分析解读

本文根据拉康的有关能指/所指及潜意识的理论,从精神分析的角度对剧本《晚安,苔丝狄蒙娜（早安,朱丽叶）》主人公康斯坦斯的心理进行分析。     

Living,learning, loving: Constructing a new ethics of integration in education

The paper positions education and learning in the context of Gilles Deleuze's ethico-political philosophy oriented to becoming-other amidst experiences and events. Deleuze's unorthodox affective epistemology is inseparable from ethics in terms of real-life consequences at the level of practice. The paper presents the critical and clinical analysis of experiential events as texts comprising a mode of the informal pedagogy in terms of creating new concepts, meanings, and values for experience. The logic of sense foregrounds ethical evaluations of experience with regard to multiple directions we might take in novel situations, which disrupt common sense with problems that do not yet yield answers as univocal and unidirectional solutions. The paper conceptualizes a model of the new ethics of integration as a follow-up to the ethics of care in education informed by the relational self-other dynamics and moral interdependence.     

对称串联型非接触电能传输系统频率分裂现象的频域分析

为揭示非接触电能传输(Contactless Power Transfer,CPT)系统频率分裂现象的成因,用Bode图考察系统传递函数3个子环节的贡献,指出对称串联型CPT系统的频率分裂现象是由两个二阶振荡环节的谐振引起的.数值仿真和实验结果表明,尽管两个二阶振荡环节的谐振频率是对称CPT系统奇偶分裂频率的定性估计,Bode频域分析方法仍可为理解CPT系统频率分裂现象提供一个新思路.     

A Strange Condition of Things: Alterity and knowingness in Dickens’ David Copperfield

Abstract

It is sometimes said that we are strangers to ourselves, bearers of internal alterity, as well as to each other. The profounder this strangeness then the greater the difficulty of giving any systematic account of it without paradox: of supposing that our obscurity to ourselves can readily be illuminated. To attempt such an account, in defiance of the paradox, is to risk knowingness: a condition which, appearing to challenge our alterity but in fact often confirming it, holds an ambiguous place in the ‘ethics of belief’ and has largely escaped philosophical attention. Like alterity, knowingness can only be approached indirectly. Charles Dickens, in David Copperfield, is exemplary in the way he handles these themes.     

In the forests of the night: an inquiry into the relevance of social dreaming for action research

This paper explores the potential for using dream material and social dreaming in action research. Access to emotional dimensions of experience is increasingly recognised as an issue for action researchers, raising questions about how to enable such inquiry and how material from the imaginative sphere may be brought into socially constituted spaces to generate new insights. Dreams provide entry into the world of image as opposed to concept. But until recently, meanings derived from dream analysis have been restricted to the private, individual sphere. Social dreaming, on the other hand, is a new technique where meanings from dreams are created by and for a socially constituted group. Drawing on a wide range of oneirological literature, studies in social dreaming and dream-sharing, and the author’s own dreams, two working assumptions are articulated to guide inquiry into how dreaming may be used in action research, one relating to the nature of dream experience and the other about practices for bringing dream material into social spaces. These assumptions guided two group-based inquiries to explore the significance of dreaming for action-based research, at meetings of action researchers and practice developers. Material from these inquiries contained a similar dream image, a house in a forest, and the image’s significance to participants and to the author is explored. Participants found that relating their dreams to their work as action researchers and practice developers was fruitful. Questions and insights were uncovered for the practice of action research, and for the practice of social dreaming for social benefit through action research.     

‘From where I’m looking it just seems like two people have missed the boat …’: understanding set behaviour from a socioanalytic perspective

Accounts of practice within the action learning literature tend to omit the more mundane session-to-session details of the inner-workings of the action learning set. As well as concentrating on the problem, individuals in all sets spend some of their time in unproductive interpersonal exchanges. These exchanges may be considered trivialities and not worthy of mentioning within an account of practice. The behaviour could, however, hold the key to understanding how the action learning group manages its unconscious anxieties associated with problem solving. In this article, using empirical research from his Ph.D. dissertation, the author explores how the insights developed by Wilfred Bion on groups, their unconscious behaviour and the anxiety of problem solving can help both action researchers and set participants better understand the working of their sets.     

辛亥革命之南北和平统一简析

武昌起义爆发后,南方各省纷纷独立,中国陷入南北分裂状态。在历史的关键时刻,以孙中山为代表的革命党人秉承“天下为公”“博爱”的思想,做出巨大的让步和妥协。最终,在南北双方政治家的大智慧下,清帝退位,国家和平统一。实力是和平统一的基础,政治家的大智慧是和平统一的前提,“天下为公”的宗旨和“博爱”的胸怀是和平统一的重要条件。     

商业电影怎样使观众“移情入梦”

观众是有思想有心理活动的观影者,商业电影想要吸引观众的注意力,使观众达到忘我的观影状态,就必须利用观众的观影心理,即观众的直观感知、无意识注意以及潜意识。商业电影正是抓住观众本身具有的不可忽视的生活经验、生理、情绪等,并利用这些因素,使用一些手段达到吸引观众的目的,并且使之产生愉悦舒适的效果。