By inviting a 'conversation' between them, this book offers a nuanced introduction both to C?zanne--the 'father of modern art'--and perhaps the most vital body of theory in contemporary psychoanalysis, 'post-Bionian field theory', as it has been evolving in Italy in the hands of Antonino Ferro, Giuseppe Civitarese, and others. C?zanne and Bion, each insisting on his own truths, spearheaded quite new directions in painting and in psychoanalysis...