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The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2016
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2010
The Chair, Irene Cairo, opened the panel with some reflections related to the technical assumptio... more The Chair, Irene Cairo, opened the panel with some reflections related to the technical assumptions available to new generations. Her proposal for this panel was not only stirred by a personal experience but also influenced by her reading of the panelists' writings. They have all been long aware of the fact that new technology has forced psychoanalysts to reassess many of their views. Irene Cairo referred to Glen Gabbard's paper on Cyberpassion (Gabbard, 2001), which presaged how communication through the Internet would challenge many technical precepts. Julio Moreno was introduced through his book Being Human (Moreno, 2000), which tackles the concept of conflict and the traditional views of reality as being limited to material and psychic reality, now having to encompass virtual reality. Finally, Vincenzo Bonaminio presented his ideas on the way adolescents challenge the essential conservatism of the classical analytic stance. Bonaminio's contribution was primarily focused on the significant effects on psychoanalysis of children and adolescents' new ways of communicating. This would be further illustrated by a 30 year-old clinical case considered to be the forerunner of the digital era. With a quote from a film, 2 Bonaminio vividly described the analyst's position in the face of the new patients' suffering from 'disturbances in their own subjectivity, in their possibility of being'. He chose to discuss adolescence because it functions as a cultural link between generations. Adolescents give analysts the chance to see how overwhelming and 'ungraspable' changes are in ways of thinking, of representing inner and external reality-how incipient and simultaneously abortive these may be. Adolescent discourse highlights the discontent of contemporary culture, together with the discontent of the analyst who has to face them. The impact of the unrepresented on the psychic fabric falls outside the ego's orbit; influencing and altering its structure. The outcome is absence or reduction of the transitional area between the realms of fantasy and reality. The progressive legitimization of an 'autistic auto-sensuousness' (Tustin, 1981) and diminishing tolerance of the classical setting in recent decades were contrasted with the psychoanalyst's confidence in the relative cohesion and durability of cultural
Revista De Psicoanalisis, 1996
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2015
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2013
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2011
This paper aims to define some unexpected convergences and foreseeable divergences regarding the ... more This paper aims to define some unexpected convergences and foreseeable divergences regarding the conceptualization of dreams and their use as a research tool, specifically in clinical practice with non-neurotic patients. It includes a concise review of different lines of thought on the vicissitudes of dreams throughout the history of psychoanalysis: from their initial conception up to their use to examine transference and relational aspects in the context of a psychoanalytic process. The idea of the merely evacuative function of dreams from patients in certain diagnostic categories is discussed and compared with that of their potential communicative value. Lastly, the essay sets forth an interdisciplinary semiotic-pragmatic approach to the function of dreams and their clinical and technical use in the context of the intersubjective dynamic field. Based on the hypothesis that dreams related in the session are communicative signs, this proposal argues their significance as a symbolic matrix that generates processes of psychic semiosis. To do so, it combines certain lines of psychoanalytic thought with ideas coming from C. S. Peirce's analytic semiotics. Clinical material is included to illustrate this viewpoint.
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2012
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2012
International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2005
This author reconsiders, from a semiotic perspective, the theoretical and technical ideas develop... more This author reconsiders, from a semiotic perspective, the theoretical and technical ideas developed by Willy and Madeleine Baranger, especially W. Baranger's views on the function of dreams, the status of oneiric symbols and the further clinical-technical use of dreams in the context of the inter-subjective dynamic field, together with the basic unconscious fantasy that emerges in the analytic situation. She attempts to relate the Barangers' ideas to others arising from Peirce's analytic semiotics that would support a triadic conceptualization of dreams. The need to incorporate a pragmatic view of communication and of the processes of production of sense as contributions to dream metapsychology and interpretation in the case of non-neurotic patients is particularly emphasized. On the basis of the hypothesis of a described series of triads underlying the production and retelling of dreams, the acknowledgment of these produced/told dreams as intentional signs allows the presence of a continuous process of semiosis to be proposed. The author introduces clinical material to illustrate the communicative value of dreams through the textual analysis of the report and accompanying associations of three dreams. Such analysis takes a linguistic pragmatics approach that examines those aspects of meaning not accounted for by a restricted semantic theory.
The International journal of psycho-analysis, Jan 17, 2015
This paper aims at comparing Freud's and Bion's conceptual models on dreams and dreaming.... more This paper aims at comparing Freud's and Bion's conceptual models on dreams and dreaming. Beyond both authors' shared disposition vis-à-vis problems posed by knowledge, a critical gap opens regarding their differing clinical practices. It is hypothesized that their ideas do not belong to irreconcilable paradigms, but that there are continuities besides discontinuities more frequently highlighted between Freudian statements on psychic functioning - described in his theory on dreams - and Bion's findings in his development of both the original theory and the connections between dreaming and thinking. Firstly, Freud's and Bion's epistemological sources are examined as well as their creative use and historical environment. Then certain general theoretical and clinical issues are considered concerning their theories on dreams, the evolution of their ideas and corresponding clinical contexts. In a third section, their confluences and dissimilarities are dealt with,...
International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2002
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Aug 1, 2010
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2016
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2010
The Chair, Irene Cairo, opened the panel with some reflections related to the technical assumptio... more The Chair, Irene Cairo, opened the panel with some reflections related to the technical assumptions available to new generations. Her proposal for this panel was not only stirred by a personal experience but also influenced by her reading of the panelists' writings. They have all been long aware of the fact that new technology has forced psychoanalysts to reassess many of their views. Irene Cairo referred to Glen Gabbard's paper on Cyberpassion (Gabbard, 2001), which presaged how communication through the Internet would challenge many technical precepts. Julio Moreno was introduced through his book Being Human (Moreno, 2000), which tackles the concept of conflict and the traditional views of reality as being limited to material and psychic reality, now having to encompass virtual reality. Finally, Vincenzo Bonaminio presented his ideas on the way adolescents challenge the essential conservatism of the classical analytic stance. Bonaminio's contribution was primarily focused on the significant effects on psychoanalysis of children and adolescents' new ways of communicating. This would be further illustrated by a 30 year-old clinical case considered to be the forerunner of the digital era. With a quote from a film, 2 Bonaminio vividly described the analyst's position in the face of the new patients' suffering from 'disturbances in their own subjectivity, in their possibility of being'. He chose to discuss adolescence because it functions as a cultural link between generations. Adolescents give analysts the chance to see how overwhelming and 'ungraspable' changes are in ways of thinking, of representing inner and external reality-how incipient and simultaneously abortive these may be. Adolescent discourse highlights the discontent of contemporary culture, together with the discontent of the analyst who has to face them. The impact of the unrepresented on the psychic fabric falls outside the ego's orbit; influencing and altering its structure. The outcome is absence or reduction of the transitional area between the realms of fantasy and reality. The progressive legitimization of an 'autistic auto-sensuousness' (Tustin, 1981) and diminishing tolerance of the classical setting in recent decades were contrasted with the psychoanalyst's confidence in the relative cohesion and durability of cultural
Revista De Psicoanalisis, 1996
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2015
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2013
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2011
This paper aims to define some unexpected convergences and foreseeable divergences regarding the ... more This paper aims to define some unexpected convergences and foreseeable divergences regarding the conceptualization of dreams and their use as a research tool, specifically in clinical practice with non-neurotic patients. It includes a concise review of different lines of thought on the vicissitudes of dreams throughout the history of psychoanalysis: from their initial conception up to their use to examine transference and relational aspects in the context of a psychoanalytic process. The idea of the merely evacuative function of dreams from patients in certain diagnostic categories is discussed and compared with that of their potential communicative value. Lastly, the essay sets forth an interdisciplinary semiotic-pragmatic approach to the function of dreams and their clinical and technical use in the context of the intersubjective dynamic field. Based on the hypothesis that dreams related in the session are communicative signs, this proposal argues their significance as a symbolic matrix that generates processes of psychic semiosis. To do so, it combines certain lines of psychoanalytic thought with ideas coming from C. S. Peirce's analytic semiotics. Clinical material is included to illustrate this viewpoint.
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2012
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2012
International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2005
This author reconsiders, from a semiotic perspective, the theoretical and technical ideas develop... more This author reconsiders, from a semiotic perspective, the theoretical and technical ideas developed by Willy and Madeleine Baranger, especially W. Baranger's views on the function of dreams, the status of oneiric symbols and the further clinical-technical use of dreams in the context of the inter-subjective dynamic field, together with the basic unconscious fantasy that emerges in the analytic situation. She attempts to relate the Barangers' ideas to others arising from Peirce's analytic semiotics that would support a triadic conceptualization of dreams. The need to incorporate a pragmatic view of communication and of the processes of production of sense as contributions to dream metapsychology and interpretation in the case of non-neurotic patients is particularly emphasized. On the basis of the hypothesis of a described series of triads underlying the production and retelling of dreams, the acknowledgment of these produced/told dreams as intentional signs allows the presence of a continuous process of semiosis to be proposed. The author introduces clinical material to illustrate the communicative value of dreams through the textual analysis of the report and accompanying associations of three dreams. Such analysis takes a linguistic pragmatics approach that examines those aspects of meaning not accounted for by a restricted semantic theory.
The International journal of psycho-analysis, Jan 17, 2015
This paper aims at comparing Freud's and Bion's conceptual models on dreams and dreaming.... more This paper aims at comparing Freud's and Bion's conceptual models on dreams and dreaming. Beyond both authors' shared disposition vis-à-vis problems posed by knowledge, a critical gap opens regarding their differing clinical practices. It is hypothesized that their ideas do not belong to irreconcilable paradigms, but that there are continuities besides discontinuities more frequently highlighted between Freudian statements on psychic functioning - described in his theory on dreams - and Bion's findings in his development of both the original theory and the connections between dreaming and thinking. Firstly, Freud's and Bion's epistemological sources are examined as well as their creative use and historical environment. Then certain general theoretical and clinical issues are considered concerning their theories on dreams, the evolution of their ideas and corresponding clinical contexts. In a third section, their confluences and dissimilarities are dealt with,...
International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2002
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Aug 1, 2010