About the book: 2009 / The second book by W. R. Bion in the series of his philosophical and epistemological psychoanalytic works represents another (after “Learning through experience”) attempt to theoretically comprehend the main psychoanalytic categories and express them in an abstract form that allows one to correctly go beyond the framework of any one of the schools and directions existing in psychoanalysis and revealing the nature of the emergence of these directions themselves. The table is described in detail - the main tool for the formation and integration by a psychoanalyst of the conceptual scheme of his theoretical and clinical work into the general system of psychoanalytic scientific knowledge. The book is addressed to psychologists and psychotherapists, as well as philosophers, sociologists and other specialists in the humanities. Publishing layout saved in PDF A4 format.