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Postmodern society questions and dissolves values; consequently, persons who until then have lived in the midst of illusions symbolized by religion, the community and stability now find themselves in a different world. There has come about a fading of comforting gods and fictions that previously Read more…

Salvatore (Toto) is the main character of the film Nuovo Cinema Paradiso. He’s a famous director in Rome and he knows the roots in the childhood of his profession. But the cercle doesn’t close until the death of Alfredo, his paternal referent in Sicilia. What Read more…

This paper consists of a critical revision and detailed account of Freudian references above all, although other authors are also taken into account, concerning the use of the rule of free association in the analyzing and of free-floating attention in the analyst, both essential components Read more…

In this article I explore the adventure of writing poetry: the genesis of the word, what can lead the poet to write, what literary influences stimulate him and the specific tools which are required in the creative process of the poetic language. My reflections come Read more…

The author discusses various aspects of institutional violence, placing the emphasis on the so-called «necessary violence» (Piera Aulagnier), one that is exercised not wanting to cause harm but for the sake of the other. She reflects briefly on the concepts of violence and aggression, their Read more…

In this paper you will find a singular proposal of how the category of «idea» or «presentation», from semiotics, can also be understood from psychoanalysis, and how, in this crossover, it can raise questions as essential as those that make the being. It is therefore Read more…

One of the main problems of today’s society, driven by strictly mercantile standards, is the medicalization of different aspects of life. The aim of this dissertation is trying to think about how it is possible that this phenomenon has such power nowadays, despite all the Read more…

The transfer and the setting have a central place in the clinical work and they cause concerns and discussions starting from the unstable and adverse circumstances in which we often develop our task. I propose changing the highlight to consider the setting not like a Read more…

The child psychoanalyst is faced with a framework of counter-transference; with the emergence of the archaic within the child and with the inclusion of the parents in the therapy process. For the therapist this raises a confrontation between their own archaic and unconscious aspects of Read more…

EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) is a psychotherapeutic approach that consists of eight phases with a set of specific procedures focused on the associative spontaneous processing of the traumatic memories and with a component of bilateral stimulation (ocular, auditory and tactile movements). The theoretical Read more…

The extension of the limits of analyzability, and the changes which today’s culture has printed on the forms of subjectivity, have promoted a large clinical and theoretical richness. Winnicott’s contributions to Freudian thinking, the study of early trauma, and the failures in the symbolic world Read more…

This paper intends to bring us close to the didactical language, clearly adaptated to the audience — mostly represented by families and mentally ill people. The paper tries to make us understand what is the meaning of the adolescence nowadays, what kind of psychical aspects Read more…

Taking as starting point Freud’s text, Delirium and dreams in W. Jensen’s «Gradiva», as well as other representative works on the topic, this essay surveys some of the most significant understandings about dreams and deliria in the history of psychoanalysis. The survey will be complemented Read more…

This study concerns the life of Richard Wagner. Pychoanalytical concepts are employed to delve into the workings of the great composer’s mind. Various theories are put forward related to the underlying and unconscious dynamic, which influenced one of the world’s best-loved composers. The study is Read more…

The concept of primal repression (Urverdrängung), which this year is celebrating its 100th anniversary, was one of the most diffused and less developed along Freud’s work, especially from the clinical point of view. In this article, after reviewing those Freudian texts that deal with the Read more…

In the present text, a central hypothesis is outlined: the psychosomatic condition corresponds to a manifestation of the true self; concept developed by Winnicott. For this task I propose as support the texts of F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885) and Beyond Good and Evil Read more…

Silvia Tubert, a psychoanalyst and a writer, was a committed intellectual who questioned with an acute critical sense the psychoanalysis of her time. She is the author of several articles and books that deal with childhood, adolescence, assisted reproduction and female subjectivity. Its innovative thinking Read more…

The work of the writer Ana María Matute is especially relevant for its high literary quality and the attention paid to the emotional world in childhood. Keywords: writing, sublimation, vitality. Gemma Cánovas Sau leave a comment Download full text (text in Spanish)

After the commemoration in 2005 of the 400 years of the issue of the first part of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha —organized in Martorell (Barcelona) within the seminar about Psychoanalysis and Current affairs that I coordinated— and with the desire to Read more…

This paper makes reflections about the experience of an elderly people therapy group, implemented in the CSM of Sants, Fundació Sant Pere Calver, from May 2012 until March 2013, 34 therapy sessions with a once per week frequency. The group was composed of 14 members, Read more…

This work, that I do intent to present as a game, considers as a starting point some of the so far called first history works of art, so as to think their consubstantial aspects in their representation. Representing may possibly be the only way we Read more…

Presentation of Services to the Elderly Project, devised by Dr. Pere Folch, recently deceased. The support to the basic areas of public health (ABS) project by Sant Pere Claver Foundation began in September 2010 and continued with weekly group work with patients over 65 years Read more…

In this paper some psychoanalytic considerations arise in the treatment of psychotic patients. The clinic allows us to display two psychic fragments: a neurotic one and a psychotic one, manifesting predominantly one or the other and requiring different modes of listening. Also my experience suggests Read more…

Reflection on the 1936 war, the post-war, the dictatorship and the transition involves a difficult challenge. It means a complex and devastating event for humanity that has been indelibly inscribed as a wound which is difficult to heal in the subjectivity of those who lived Read more…

In this paper we address the influence of the archaic, how it can trigger and affect ego functions. It is proposed through the concept of après-coup, a way of connecting. Keywords: après-coup, archaic, historical Mauricio Santín leave a comment Download full text (text in Spanish)

In German, the same word, Shuld, means debt, fault, guilt and they can be used interchangeably. If their relationship is an obligation with another, who is the other? The debt generated from generation to generation is bequeathed as a testament to the offspring, and thus Read more…

In September 2010 a group of psychoanalysts got together with the interest of promoting an elderly care project. This project began with the collaboration of primary care centers, where elderly people over 65 often go. Many of them query their doctors about their fear of Read more…

The current times, of post-modernity or over-modernity, are characterized by weak, fragile and liquid relationships, as Zygmunt Bauman says. It is becoming more and more common, especially in adolescents, but not only in them, a kind of transference attachment that I’m going to call «Facebook-style», Read more…

The mother, together with her objects and the notion of object, introduced the baby into «a primary founding triangulation» of subject and object while technology went even further. Oedipal triangulation, which made us become sapiens, structured the new subjective and objective world that we know; Read more…

As evidence from current neuroscience studies shows us, affectivity and attachment are intrinsically related. At the begining there is an attachment, and affectivity becomes separated from the quality of the attachment. The human being is born absolutely defenseless, both physically and psychically and now we Read more…

This article describes some of the harmful effects of the current crisis of capitalism, with its economic and social consequences, on people’s subjectivity, granting special attention to anxiety disorders, fear and depression. We are passing from a welfare state to one of abandonment and lack Read more…

This artycle tries to think how the capacity of the carer functions of the environment towards the baby, while they have the ability-intuition to combine with the erogenous-pulsional singularity of the baby, is able to allow that what comes from the external world will become Read more…

I intend to reflect around a clinic which highlights an impoverishment in the symbolic order which has non-production of symptoms as a correlate, where the impulsive behaviors reveal a type of satisfaction drives that reported serious deficiencies in its passage through castration. A clinic without Read more…

Nowadays, in the clinical practice we can very often find children and teenagers whose parents have made a real dereliction of their duties, leaving them homeless-like, full of fear, a fear they will project in different ways, even denying it or transforming it in the Read more…

The text refers to the urgent need to renew the psychoanalysis to today’s new challenges. Proposals that are formulated are more based on factors intrinsic to our work than in the extrinsic ones (reigning sociopolitical, economic and ideological crisis, pharmacological treatment options, etc.). This is Read more…

People in pre-literate societies show a low capacity for introspection. The invention of the printing press, which allows reading alone, heightens introspective capacity; the appearance of the romantic novel was a powerful stimulus for the reader to empathize with the main characters. The steam engine Read more…

The process of a person’s construction requires the meeting between two universes of meaning: the parental functions and the infant’s desires; a meeting in which the mystery of both is tolerated and the mutual discovery comes from an invitation and not an invasion. This task, Read more…

Attachment theory is currently one of the most interesting theories in the field of childhood. Their main parameters are derived from psychoanalysis, ethology, cognitive psychology and neuropsychology. Attachment theory provides new concepts about the origin of the human psyche. In this sense, it helps us Read more…

Following is a synopsis, accompanied by comments and personal contentions, of the main contributions and events that have marked the history of the concept of the Superego in the psychoanalytic movement. The author focuses above all on the theoretical and clinical aspects and on the Read more…

With the passage of time, the classical setting has been modified. Different socio-cultural factors have established the tendency to reduce the frequency of sessions and shorten the duration of treatment. In this paper we will reflect on the frequency of sessions and the time, considering Read more…

André Green, who died in January 2012, has had a leading position in the international psychoanalytic movement that, in my opinion, cannot be explained solely by the relevance, dissemination and knowledge of his work. In Green’s work, people recognize at the same time his fidelity Read more…

Recently deceased J. Laplanche made important contributions to the Psychoanalytical Theory, which are explored in this article. In an in-depth study of texts by Sigmund Freud, Laplanche clarified ambiguities, reformulated concepts without undermining fundamental theories. Retrieving the Theory of Seduction, abandoned by Freud in 1897, Read more…

Training is a complex issue that has generated much controversy because it lies at the heart of the transmission of psychoanalysis. Since its creation, psychoanalysis as theory and clinical practice has evolved, so that the development of the ideas of the founder has led to Read more…

This article tries to make the working tools for mental health professionals recognisable, which are, basically, those elements which enable the execution of the thinking process. It follows closely the theoretical developments of W. R. Bion, specifically the Table of Elements of Psychoanalysis and Transformations. Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: Se efectúa una revisión de la última teoría pulsional freudiana, diferenciando sus dos versiones de la pulsión de muerte, esto es, como compulsión de repetición (Freud,1920) y la traducida en pulsiones agresivas o destructivas (Freud, 1923). Se trata de dos descripciones diferentes, Read more…

[Text in Catalan]: (Comunicació realitzada a la taula rodona: «La cosificación del sujeto en el nuevo DSM-V» Jornada de la Plataforma Psicoanàlisi Segle XXI, 5 d’octubre del 2011, Casa del Mar, Barcelona.) Quan la sentor de putrefacció de la vida a la polis no podia Read more…

Argelès-sur-Mer concentration camp became a place of horror, terror and continued abuse of detained citizens, that brought numerous and severe symptoms, extending to the first, second, third and fourth generation. The linking of certain psychopathological problems with political repression is also to be sought outside Read more…

This work was read at the II Conference organized by the 21st Century Psychoanalysis Platform: «Psychoanalysis, science and art: junctions on the complexity of the subject», at the round table: Art and psychoanalysis, in the Casa del Mar in Barcelona, on 16th October 2010. The Read more…

Starting from the Freudian term of the 1920s, the article relates the game of the fort-da with the conceptualization of the death drive in a theoretical level and the psychoanalytical thought and space in a practical level, intertwined with the ability of symbolization that reflects Read more…

We develop a theoretical concept concerning the mental apparatus and technology, the myth of Narcissus and the technological mirror, reality and virtual reality; we briefly check some authors’ conceptions that facilitate the comprehension of the online world such as Marshall McLuhan, Derrick de Kerckhove and Read more…

This work tries to associate the indispensability of the object, as constituent of the psyches as much as in its survival, as well as its role across the experiences of satisfaction in which the quality of the meeting with the object determines the qualities of Read more…

According to the author of this article, not only did Sigmund Freud spawn psychoanalysis and psychotherapy clinic but he also opened a new way of thinking about cultural issues. His reflections on religion, sexuality, homosexuality, mental illness, mass movements and other topics related to culture, Read more…

An experience of therapeutic groups We present the following considerations on a systematic psychotherapeutic work group in an adult mental health centre (CSMA), with youth and adults, which we organize annually as a psychotherapeutic resort, with a ratio of continuous work, offering the patients a Read more…

This paper focuses upon the mistake of replacing sex by gender from the viewpoint of the struggle for the equal rights of men and women. Unlike sex, the category of gender is fuzzy, hard to explain and so broad in its meaning that misses the Read more…

Both theater and psychoanalysis make use of similar concepts in their practices, they often refer to possible analogies and many other times they don’t. In this paper, we try to identify the uses of these concepts which are fundamental to psychoanalysis, especially in some of Read more…

The current brief text is the third one of a triad regarding technique and the concept of the tirad unconscious. Right here, we are searching for the destinations of the non-transferred or, that is, what would not ever find a proper response from the object. Read more…

Human sexuality varies from one culture to another depending on the socio-historical context in which it develops. From sexuality of primitive man, linked to the cycle of fertilization, as in other animals, to western human sexuality, increasingly detached from reproduction, there is a giant leap. Read more…

Fundamentalism, fanaticism, dogmatism, sectarianism are different manifestations of a radical intolerance faced with any new vertex acting in the name of the defence of any idea which it is hoped would be considered eternal. The defenders of fixed ideas develop as much from mental functions Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: El autor se introduce en las manifestaciones de la violencia y la perversidad apoyándose en la etimología, porque comprende que el lenguaje es producto de la sedimentación de las experiencias intelectivo-afectivas de los hombres, para luego reencontrar dichos sentidos en la tarea Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: De nuevo, el complejo de Edipo. El artículo pretende responder a la pregunta, repetida con frecuencia desde hace un tiempo, sobre qué hay de nuevo y qué hay de antiguo en este punto fundamental de la teoría psicoanalítica. Para responderla, pretendo, en Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: El trabajo por la recuperación de la memoria histórica en nuestro país no es tarea fácil. ¿Quién quiere saber de un pasado familiar y social en el que predominaba el enfrentamiento, el miedo, el hambre y la desesperanza? Las barreras para conocerlo Read more…

Cervantes in his book Don Quixote de la Mancha provides us with a perfect evolution of the madness of don Quixote from beginning to end, with which we understand that this is the matter he is most concerned about and it is this aspect of Read more…

Co-therapy is a very useful tool in solving particularly difficult cases by an institution with limited resources. The analysis of a real case-family allows for the assessment of the potential advantages of co-therapy. The presence of two therapists brings into the session the libidinal relationship Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: Este trabajo forma parte del libro Aspectos Psicosociales del Mayor, Salud Comunitaria, Creatividad y Derechos Humanos. Desarrollamos nuestra tarea desde un enfoque interdisciplinario, con una mirada amplia sobre ese sujeto que disfruta y sufre en el recorrido de su camino vital, en Read more…

[Text in Catalan]: El present treball aporta algunes reflexions sorgides de l’observació clínica recollida en el marc de l’assistència interdisciplinària de parelles que consulten per problemes de fecunditat i que recauen en el camp de la bioètica. Es vol destacar la importància de considerar els Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: En el presente texto se parte de la inicial estupefacción del autor ante criterios fenomenológicos de fin de análisis, supuestamente normativos y adaptativos como casarse y tener hijos. Partiendo del amar y trabajar freudiano, se pesquisan en profundidad las transformaciones metapsicológicas requeridas Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: En este artículo me propongo tratar el concepto freudiano de Verleugnung (desmentida) desde una doble perspectiva: primero desde un punto de vista clínico, como una defensa generadora de un modo de permanecer inconsciente ante una parte de la realidad, fenómeno para el Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: Este trabajo intenta reflexionar sobre las relaciones que mantienen los principios técnicos y las teorías que les dan cobijo, tomando como ejemplo el pensamiento psicosomático de la Escuela de París. Se pregunta, específicamente, si es posible un cambio teórico que no se Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: El pasado 9 de mayo se celebró en Barcelona el IV Simposio de la sección de psicoterapia psicoanalítica de la FEAP, federación que aglutina a diversas asociaciones de profesionales de la psicoterapia de distintas orientaciones y del conjunto del estado. El simposio Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: En este artículo he intentado resumir las aportaciones teóricas y clínicas de la psicoanalista francesa F. Dolto (1908-1988), que en su momento fueron relevantes en la creación del psicoanálisis de niños. También dar cuenta de los aspectos de su biografía relacionados tanto Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: Esta técnica, también conocida como psicoterapia breve o de objetivos y tiempo limitados es, a mi entender y a estas alturas de nuestros conocimientos teóricos y experiencia clínica, un procedimiento si bien inspirado y basado en el psicoanálisis, factible de ser definidamente Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: En este trabajo se aborda la construcción del equipo necesario a la producción de símbolos adoptando el modelo propuesto por Wilfred Bion y las contribuciones posteriores de Donald Meltzer. La peripecia en el proceso constructivo conlleva la posibilidad de formación simbólica, pero Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: El presente texto es una expansión muy acrecida de una ponencia propuesta en la ocasión de una mesa redonda sobre psicoanálisis y/o psicoterapia, organizada bajo los auspicios de la AEHP. Aquél fue un trabajo clásico sobre las diferencias e indicaciones diversas de Read more…

[Text in Catalan]: Amb la presentació d’aquest material vull evidenciar una clínica que, al meu parer, cal reconèixer en la seva particularitat i també en la seva extensió. És la clínica de la repressió en la catàstrofe social que, a casa nostra, ens col·loca no Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: Cada día llegan más demandas de ayuda a nuestras consultas que no son las típicas de los cuadros clínicos tradicionales, sino derivadas y basadas en problemas de adaptación a la vida cotidiana. En consecuencia, hay un ruidoso clamor social y profesional en Read more…

[Text in Catalan]: El concepte de la Zona Trans és encara una idea que li cal més elaboració. No obstant això, crec que és important introduir-la per tal de conèixer millor tota una sèrie d’aspectes relacionats amb la geografia de la ment. La comprensió d’aquests Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: Este trabajo trata de las consecuencias teóricoclínicas surgidas de mis experiencias con pacientes con trastornos narcisistas y dificultades de simbolización. El objetivo terapéutico fue articular el lenguaje verbal corporal, creativo y el del silencio, para lograr el proceso de metaforización de la Read more…

With this work, first of all, there is an intent of clarifying what we mean by old person, what is the age at which old age begins? Then, it is done a partial and biased historical review of the vision of psychoanalysis on the pshycotherapeutical Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: Partiendo de la idea de una huella que muestra un lugar previamente ocupado y unos bordes que la delimitan, surgen una serie de reflexiones sobre las experiencias de vacío, tanto cuando se da esa desaparición del objeto previamente existente como cuando, en Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: Este trabajo se propone revisar las nociones freudianas de Verwerfung y Verleugnung, sobre las que existe una cierta confusión en la literatura. El objetivo es tratar de establecer, primero, si existe base para una conceptualización diferenciada de ambas, y en especial para Read more…

It seems now that even childhood is forced to be as frantic as today’s changing social dynamics, whereby there is an urgent need for superficiality, consumerism, and uniformity which leads to the detriment of critical thought and social questioning. The sombre metaphor about the future Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: Se desarrollará el concepto de escena, articulándolo con la historia del diseño teatral, para en un segundo momento llegar a una concepción escénica de un escenario especial, el ciberespacio. Dos conceptos teóricos nos servirán de conexión entre el concepto de escena y Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: Deseo compartir con los compañeros de Intercanvis esta ponencia que presenté en una jornada para jueces, sobre Protección de Menores, organizada por el Consejo General del Poder Judicial en Madrid. La colaboración interdisciplinar, que siempre es importante e imprescindible, cobra mayor necesidad, Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: La noción de nachträglichkeit se nos presenta como un punto de entrecruzamiento de las teorías psicoanalíticas, no estando exenta de un alto grado de complejidad y posee diversas implicaciones, articulando entre sí temas de gran importancia, tales como las teorías concernientes a: Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: Muchos profesionales de la psicología clínica y/o el psicoanálisis, al margen de nuestro trabajo en las consultas privadas, hemos colaborado o colaboramos en alguna institución ya sea, pública, privada o privada subvencionada, en calidad de psicoterapeutas, asesores, etcétera. Con frecuencia, forman parte Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: De entre la complejidad de fenómenos ligados a la excitación nos interesa investigar ese momento en que la excitación puede transformarse en formas excitadas. Cómo evolucionan, cómo se comportan estas formas excitadas, cuál es su destino, su relación con los objetos mínimos, Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: Este trabajo se presentó dentro del marco de las actividades del Any Freud que organizó la librería Xoroi para conmemorar el 150º aniversario del nacimiento de Sigmund Freud. Mi particular interés por la vida y la obra de Salvador Dalí me ha Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: Los sueños deben observarse y valorarse como un elemento más dentro de la comunicación transferencial. Sea como narración, contenido manifiesto y primer contenido latente (Rallo) o action language (Shafer). Sea como una dramatización, actualización y/o actuación (aspecto relación de la comunicación) o Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: Aunque en la actualidad el concepto de la resistencia haya perdido buena parte de su lustre, no debemos olvidar que ocupa un lugar de preeminencia en la historia del psicoanálisis. En este artículo (originalmente notas de clase para el Máster de Psicoterapia Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: Se comienza por una síntesis de mi libro La fascinación del líder. En torno a un libro olvidado de Freud sobre el Presidente Wilson (2005). Se hace especial hincapié en el concepto de ideal del superyó, diferenciándolo de los conceptos de superyó, Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: El autor trata de hacer un recorrido teóricoclínico por las que se han venido a llamar negativizaciones defensivas (A. Green), que implican al yo, al objeto, o a ambos a la vez. Las experiencias negativas vividas no son necesariamente malignas, al contrario, Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: Este trabajo es la introducción de un libro que trata de avanzar hacia la definición de los fundamentos epistemológicos y metodológicos en los cuales se basan los principios y criterios que orientan las prácticas de la salud mental, esto es, de establecer Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: Uno de los hechos que me hizo decidir volcar en un papel estas ideas y que desearía discutir con Uds., es que en el 150 aniversario del nacimiento de Sigmund Freud, a pesar o porque se siga estudiando, creando, investigando y difundiendo Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: Diez días antes de la Jornada sobre Identidad, Emigración y Exilio me llamó Víctor Martí para proponerme participar en una mesa redonda, en sustitución de Darío Sor, que no podía participar. Estuve tentada de decir que no, pero la simpatía y admiración Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: El autor pretende indagar cuál es el origen y la naturaleza del incesto teniendo en cuenta que cuando Freud fundamenta el origen del complejo de Edipo en Tótem y Tabú, como también lo hiciera Lévi-Strauss en Antropología Estructural con respecto a la Read more…

[Text in Spanish]: Este trabajo fue leído en el Instituto Francés de Barcelona el viernes 20 de octubre de 2006 en el seminario organizado por la Asociación Española de Historia del Psicoanálisis, sobre La vigencia del pensamiento de Freud después de 150 años de su Read more…