L’Istituto Psicoanalitico per le Ricerche Sociali (IPRS ets), in collaborazione con l’Istituto Elvio Fachinelli – ISAP (Institute of Advanced Studies in Psychoanalysis), l’European Journal of Psychoannalysis e l’Istituto di Ricerche Europee in Psicoterapia Psicoanalitica (IREP) presentano l’evento LA BIPOLARITÀ’. Tra psichiatria e Psicoanalisi, che si terrà venerdì 1…

A partire da “Il follemente corretto” di Luca Ricolfi. La politica dalla padella alla brace

Recensione a Il follemente corretto. L’inclusione che esclude e l’ascesa della nuova élite (La Nave di Teseo, Milano 2024) di Luca Ricolfi.

Pubblichiamo un breve estratto del libro di Marco Focchi L’inconscio algoritmico e l’amore (Orthotes, 2024)

In this text the author reviews the recent history of the preoccupation with the study of consciousness within the field of the cognitive sciences. A general categorization of approaches is provided, running from the neuro-reductionist or objectivist positions to those that leave an explicit place for subjective accounts in the study of conscious experience. Positioning himself in this latter category, the author defines the task of neurophenomenology as the exploration of the modes of circulation between first- and third-person accounts of experience.

This paper treats the failure as well as the paradox of representation staged in Schönberg’s Moses and Aaron in terms of an extended commentary on the Second Commandment. For example, it shows how God is represented in the opera by the very voice that God makes impossible. In addition, it historically situates a critique of the imaginary father of fascism against both Freud and Schönberg’s Moses, with their concern with the insufficiency of the imaginary and with the stuttering occasioned by the “Real,” i.e., by an encounter with that which cannot be represented.

Some Facets of Perversion [1]

Introduction to the Japanese edition of S. Freud’s “Complete Works”

Freud’s analysis of the Wolf Man was notoriously problematic, with this most famous patient resisting psychoanalytic interpretation and requiring attention from its practitioners for the duration of his long life. The case study, published in 1918, draws into its orbit the narratives of a neurotic personality and a dying class of Russian aristocracy, along with key theoretical assertions and political posturing (regarding the dissention of former colleagues) on the part of Freud. What the author locates in Freud’s text and the Wolf Man’s later memoirs and interviews is an exclusionary attitude, in both theory and personal reflections, to the very dramatic forces of world history that were to have a considerable impact on the lives of analyst and analysand.

The perspective of classical psychoanalysis is based on the theme of lacking, around which the bombast of hysteric theatre and the grand narrative of the family novel unfold. Contemporary pathologies (panic attacks, food pathologies, such as new forms of addiction, gambling and sex) are more silent, more like short stories, they shed light on a different, excessive aspect, on an anguishing, if not paniky, intrusiveness of an Other beyond measure, with no limits, no rules.