Freud’s “The Negation”
“[Freud’s “Negation”] has an absolutely extraordinary structure, and deep down it is extraordinarily enigmatic“ J. Hyppolite* 1. Denying What the…
Category: SUBJECT’S CURE
My Transference with Lacan as a Thinker
“I confess that I am quite dissatisfied – apart from a few exceptions – with philosophies that fully take up…
Italy and Psychoanalysis
Number 5 – “Spring-Fall 1997”
Merleau-Ponty and Hallucination
Published in American Imago, vol. 72, Summer 2015/2, pp. 177-196. I. Not Constructing, But Living I offer here a rereading…
“A Street Car Named Love”. The checkmate of “as if” personalities
” Of the partner, love can only accomplish what I called with a kind of poetry, to make myself understood,…
Sublimation and Compassion
SummaryThe concept of sublimation in Freud is examined here as a corollary of the metaphysics underlying the bulk of his works: the…
Satanization of Man. The Pandemic and the Wound of Narcissism
In many cultures once referred to as “primitive” it is inconceivable for someone to die a natural death. For example,…
Listening to Perversion.
It is quite rare for a psychoanalyst to work with a pure pervert, someone who does not complain also about…
On Autism. Responses To My Critics
Published on Division/Review. A Quarterly Psychianalytic Forum, 20, Winter 2020, pp. 29-33. 1. First, I apologize for my…
Autism: A Battle Lost by Psychoanalysis
Published in DIVISION/REVIEW, 19, Summer 2019, pp. 26-32. For some time now, in many countries (including Italy and France), those…