Chapter
Basic Assumption
What it shows
- 1952
Wilfred Bion introduced Basic assumption
Worked out in Bion's papers on groups from 1948 to 1951 and in 'Group dynamics: a re-view' (1952), collected in Experiences in Groups (1961).
- 1952
Basic assumption derives from Paranoid-schizoid position
In 'Group dynamics: a re-view' (1952) Bion traced the basic assumptions to a primitive part-object scene tied to the psychotic anxieties, splitting and projective identification of Klein's paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions.
- 1952
Basic assumption derives from Depressive position
Bion's 1952 re-view places the anxieties that basic-assumption life defends against in both of Klein's positions, the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive.