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K-Link: Curiosity as a Force of the Mind: Exploring Wilfred Bion's Psychoanalytic Theory and Its Implications for Clinical and Cultural Practice

K-Link: Curiosity as a Force of the Mind: Exploring Wilfred Bion's Psychoanalytic Theory and Its Implications for Clinical and Cultural Practice

Silva, William Marcos

Paperback

Series: Psychoanalysis Through Time, Book 3

PhilosophyGeneral EducationGeneral Psychology

ISBN13: 9798273542259
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 7 2025
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
K-Link: Curiosity as a Force of the Mind - Exploring Wilfred Bion's Psychoanalytic Theory and Its Implications for Clinical and Cultural Practice

In a world saturated with information and poor in deep reflection, this book proposes a new avenue for understanding how the human mind learns, creates, and transforms-not just through reason, but through emotion, questioning, and curiosity. Starting from the seminal work of Wilfred Bion, the author William Marcos presents the concept of K (Knowledge) bond as a link between the subject who seeks to know and the object that allows himself to be known - between the human who feels and the reality he provokes.

The work is structured in three parts:

  • Part I - Theoretical Foundations: Introduction to Bionian thinking, the L (Love) and H (Hate) links and the alpha function, showing how emotional experience is transformed into knowledge.
  • Part II - Curiosity as an Emotional Experience: Exploration of curiosity in clinical, cultural, and historical contexts, demonstrating that the K bond requires tolerance for not knowing, frustration, and integrated emotion.
  • Part III - Applications and Repercussions: Applies the K link to the clinic, education and collective knowledge, offering clinical cases, historical examples, and prospective reflections on human knowledge.

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