Essential Being

This book explores the concept of pre-conceptual trauma drawing in particular on the pioneering research of Wilfred Bion. A comparison is established between two different groups of individuals: five well-known dictators and five famous creative individuals. The authors have defined pre-conceptual traumas as ubiquitous experiences that all human beings go through during the first years of their lives when a temporary absence changes into a permanent presence determining the outcome of what any individual might do or perform in the future. Pre-conceptual traumas split the mind into two dialectical and correlated states: the traumatized (conflictive or pathological) and the non-traumatized (developmental or normal).