Edizioni FrancoAngeli - Last issue of PSICOANALISI (2/2012)

In ricordo di Silvio Zucconi. Silvio Zucconi: l’eleganza del pensiero e della parola. In ricordo di un Maestro

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Simona Argentieri, Gallina Anita Manno

Ego psychology, 1950-2010: Stasis or Evolution?

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Francis Baudry
This paper attempts to trace the main ideas developed by Hartman, Kris and Loewenstein in the early 50s and to show how they first contributed to structuralize what had been a rather chaotic therapeutic enterprise. In a second part the problems associated with looking at treatment as a rather one person process led to the development of other points of view, particularly in England and France. These new developments focused on the greater role of early object relations with the contributions of the Kleinians and of Winnicott and the greater understanding of the pre-oedipal phase of development. This de-emphasized the overreaching importance of the oedipal phase. In a third section I briefly examine how practice of so called ego psychology has silently evolved, without however reflecting the new techniques in a changing or evolutionary theory. The disconnect between theory and technique and its consequences are examined.

A comparative view on the work of José Bleger and the traditional Kleinian Authors

Sat, 15 Feb 2013 8:00:00 GMT

Rogelio Sosnik
J. Bleger, who considers himself very close to the Kleinian School, introduced another perspective regarding the Psychotic Mode of mental functioning. His emphases on Symbiosis as a primary state of the mind, and the evolution of discrimination departing from this primitive state of non-ego state, distances him from the Kleinian cannon, centered as it is on the resolution of primitive anxieties for the primitive ego. However, the application of his approach to the analysis of the psychoanalytic setting, opens the door to new insights on the psychoanalytic situation.

The Father

Sat, 15 Feb 2013 8:00:00 GMT

Jacqueline Amati Mehler
In this paper the author attempts to explore changes in fatherhood both by virtue of social alterations and on account of our increased understanding of early pre-oedipal vicissitudes. The latter have mainly been dealt from the perspective of the mother-infant dyadic attachment and separation individuation processes. The increasing role of "maternal" fathers call for more attention to early dyadic father-child positive and negative pre-oedipal vicissitudes. A detailed clinical case attempts to explore both the intrapsychic impact of fathering in men, especially in the case of the birth of a boy infant and the transgenerational impact of conflictual non resolved pre-oedipal or oedipal crossroads.

The Man in the writer and the Writer in the man

Sat, 15 Feb 2013 8:00:00 GMT

Teresa Iole Carratelli
The author reflects upon the role played by Levi the Writer in helping Levi the Man hold the "nameless" physical and mental pain over the course of his enslavement, as suffered by his fellow community members, in a concentration camp, and in his adventurous journey home. Through his novels he made his "atypical work of self-analysis" public, bearing testimony to the way in which his abilities of observation and thought proved to be important factors for survival in such extreme conditions.

Recensioni

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