Wilfred Bion and Literary Criticism introduces the work of the British psychoanalyst, Wilfred Bion (1897-1979), and the immense potential of his ideas for thinking about literature, creative process, and creative writing. 'Wynter-Vincent has written a luminous and deeply compelling book that will appeal to anyone with an interest in creativity, literature and psychoanalysis. It is both a wonderfully clear introduction to Wilfred Bion's work, and a series of enthralling encounters that puts his thinking in contact with Freud, Stevie Smith, B.S. Johnson, Jean Rhys, J.G. Ballard and other writers, to remarkably illuminating effect.'Nicholas Royle, Professor of English, University of Sussex 'This book will change how you think about thinking. Naomi Wynter-Vincent's tremendously enlivening study draws on significant, consequential affinities between Bion's ideas and the work of literary writers. We come to understand how Bion thought and how he considered thinking. In the process, we benefit from clear, searching accounts of his idiosyncratic and highly influential psychoanalytic inventions (alpha-function, beta-elements, bizarre objects, O, and the Grid, to name a few). Wilfred Bion and Literary Criticism reminds us how exciting, inventive, necessary and sometimes maddening thinking can be, and how courageous and important a thinker Bion is for us today.'Sarah Wood, Reader in English Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Kent (retired), Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in private practice