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To dare to be aware of the facts of the universe in which we are existing calls for courage.

Wilfred Bion

If a new result is to have any value, it must unite elements long since known, but till then scattered and seemingly foreign to each other, and suddenly introduce order where the appearance of disorder reigned.

Wilfred Bion

It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.

Wilfred Bion

Wilfred Bion

Wilfred Bion

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Born: September 8, 1897

Died: August 28, 1979 (aged 81)

Bio: Wilfred Ruprecht Bion was an influential British psychoanalyst, who became president of the British Psychoanalytical Society from 1962 to 1965.

Known for:

Experiences in groups and other papers (1961)
Attention and interpretation (1970)
Learning from Experience (1962)
A Memoir of the Future (1975)
Elements of psycho-analysis (1963)

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