“Could beauty help?”

responses to turbulence

Abstract

This text illustrates the relationship between psychic turbulence and the sense of beauty in the post-Kleinian aesthetic model of the mind. The author used some extracts of the film inspired in Memoir of the future, by Bion, named The becoming room, that uses images from a previous film – never finished, directed by Kumar Shahani in the decade of 1980 – as a background phantasy for a monologue in which an elderly Bion remembers moments of turbulence in his life story, in the process that he calls “re-membering” the past in the present.