Traces: Art, Psychoanalysis, and the Ethics of Unsaturated Space

What does it mean to think without closure?In Traces, Luca Caldironi expands upon the theories of seminal psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion to investigate subjectivity, art, and contemporary culture.Drawing on Bionian concepts such as unsaturated space, reverie, and transformation, the book argues that art and psychoanalysis share a common task: sustaining the conditions under which thought can emerge.Exploring embodiment, generative artificial intelligence, and a-chronic time, Traces proposes the trace as a vital figure of orientation within a culture increasingly governed by prediction and optimization.Challenging the impulse toward neat conclusions, the book defends incompletion as an ethical and creative necessity for our complex modern era. Read more