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Raffaello Cortina Editore
Foreword
rivista: La Rivista di Psicoanalisi
fascicolo: The Italian Psychoanalytic Annual 2022/16
Autori vari
Winnicott and metapsychology: an ongoing debate
rivista: La Rivista di Psicoanalisi
fascicolo: The Italian Psychoanalytic Annual 2022/16
di Fausta Ferraro
The debate about Winnicott’s relationship to Metapsychology is raised in the margins of the research project promoted and led by Riolo (2015-2020). Moving from the consistent dialogue between Fulgencio and Girard, the author revisits Winnicott’s theory of instincts in a constant dialectics with the Freud’s one. After reviewing Winnicott’s conceptual work, the author argues that the theory of destructiveness, different from Freud’s, is crucial and remarkable for the elaboration of some of the most original concepts, such as intermediate area and potential space.KEY WORDS: Drive/instinctual theory, Fulgencio-Girard debate (2007-2017), metapsychology, Winnicott-Freud comparison.
External reality, use of characters and reverie in the construction of the narrative function
rivista: La Rivista di Psicoanalisi
fascicolo: The Italian Psychoanalytic Annual 2022/16
di Fulvio Mazzacane
In this paper, I present a portion of the analysis of a young woman, from the first meeting to the moment when conditions within the analytic field make possible the emergence of a function through which the analytic couple co-construct original narratives. From a theoretical point of view, I address a crux in the Bion-Field Theory, namely, the way in which the analyst attempts to reconcile the search for an atmosphere based on the centrality of the waking dream thought with the impact of historical reality and trauma. In addressing the theme of developing the narrative function, I also discuss the use of characters and reverie in the session and how developments in narratology may be of special interestto the analyst.KEY WORDS: Bion-field theory, narrative function, narratology, reality, reverie.
Unconscious / unconsciouses: a reflective note
rivista: La Rivista di Psicoanalisi
fascicolo: The Italian Psychoanalytic Annual 2022/16
di Anna Maria Nicolò
The evolution of the concept of the unconscious is described from its origin to the present days and the changes in its conception that have made it possible to abandon a static representation of it and observe its interpersonal development. A more primitive domain of the unconscious, to which Winnicott refers when speaking of formless states and non-integration, is the current frontier of our studies. Two clinical cases are discussed.KEYWORDS: Creative unconscious, function of the unconscious, psychic functioning, receptive unconscious, unconscious.
