Online Lecture - Meg Harris Williams
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Learning from the Experience of Reading Bion's Autobiographies
Meg Harris Williams
Thursday 5th November
In her talk, Meg will describe some key elements that emerge from Bion’s presentation of his ‘self’ in his autobiographical works, and how, as with creative fiction, identification with these becomes a passionate learning experience for the reader, by encouraging or even demanding that further symbolic transformations are made. She will draw on her new book on Bion, Our Eternal Home: Bion's Idea of the Self.
Chaired by Eve Steel.
Biography
Meg Harris Williams is a writer and lecturer on literature and psychoanalysis and also a visual artist. She teaches internationally and is editor of The Harris Meltzer Trust. Her books and papers have been translated into many languages and include: Inspiration in Milton and Keats (1982), A Strange Way of Killing: Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1987), The Apprehension of Beauty (with Donald Meltzer; 1988), The Chamber of Maiden Thought (with Margot Waddell; 1991), Hamlet in Analysis (1997), The Vale of Soulmaking (2005), The Aesthetic Development (2010), Bion's Dream (2010), The Becoming Room: Filming Bion's Memoir of the Future (2015), The Art of Personality in Literature and Psychoanalysis (2017), Dream Sequences in Shakespeare (2021), and Donald Meltzer: A Contemporary Introduction (2021). Her new book is Our Eternal Home: Bion's Idea of the Self. Website: www.artlit.info.