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the aspects of Bion, Winnicott, Lacan he takes aspects of their thinking that relate to
that
DB: Yes I think my approach to psychoanalysis is much more instrumental than
Eigen’s would be, I do see it as a therapy it’s a technique that one’s using as therapy
and sometimes it’s deeply moving and all kinds of things happen for oneself so to
speak in it but that is all subordinated to its task as I see it
AR: Yes question 6 David are there issues concerning religion and spirituality, which
you would like to write about but you haven’t yet done so or you haven’t spoken
about?
DB: (pause) Well I really want to see where these thoughts about consciousness go as
I say I felt sort of liberated in a way by writing that tentative position paper but ready
for what I am not yet sure but there are a lot of very interesting things going on at the
moment especially in America these dialogues I mentioned between the Dali Lama
and other people that seems to me to be the most creative area that I know about in
this area of psychoanalysis and psychoanalysis is just one of five or six different
disciplines that are all contributing to it
AR: Yes there is nothing similar that you are aware of happening or going to be
happening in a British context
DB: I don’t really know about it so much in a British context although there are very
interesting things in the British context there is an organization called the Scientific
and Medical Network I don’t know if you have come across it
AR: I have not come across that
DB: There is the Schumacher College down in Totnes, Dartington these are places
where dialogues are taking place between people with a background in science,
serious trained scientists and spiritual ways of thinking so there are some things going
on in this country
AR: And in the psychoanalytic world are there any further linkings within the
spirituality that are around that you are aware of or is it just if you are a psychoanalyst
you work and you see patients on a regular basis and with regular frequency and you
don’t actually have a great deal of time I think there’s that…
DB: Time is a real problem just as you were saying in your experience. Neville
Symington said that in the introduction to one of his books how difficult it is trying to
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