Mind as a Nonlinear Dynamic System and Wilfred Bion as a Paradigm Shifter for Psychoanalysis

This presentation offers a model of Mind as a complex, nonlinear dynamic system that is subjectively and phenomenologically experienced by an individual human being. The mind is also seen as co-existing with and interacting within a larger context, or system, consisting of a bioenergetic subsystem and a sociosymbolic subsystem. These include the neurological substrate of the human brain and body and the symbolic realm of language and culture and interpersonal communications. From an overarching metaphysical perspective, each individual, as a perceiving and agentic, living organism, reciprocally interacts with Reality in an on-going exchange of information across diffuse, dynamic, binary boundaries, with generated bifurcations that emerge from the engagement of the perceiving and acting organism with its experiential context. The mind, in a sense, creates Reality and at the same time is a subsystem of the larger realm. This presentation draws upon a diverse conceptual and theoretical framework, incorporat