Metapsychology of treatment 2022/1

APRIL 2023

Summary

Studies and researches:

    • The metapsychology of interpretation, Franco Baldini
    • Eros and the Death Drive: one Libido, two regimes, Silvana Dalto
    • Dualism drive and biological phenomena: a parallelism?, Valentino Gaffuri Riva
    • Metapsychology of obsessive neurosis: etiological and pathological mechanisms starting from the case of the Rat man, Edoardo Meroni
    • Responses to Schatzman’s purported critique of Freud on the clinical case of President Schreber. Precipitating etiological contributions of psychoanalysis on paranoia (part one), Maria Grazia Tosto

Documents and debates:

    • Letter to Karl Abraham dated 01.19.1908, Sigmund Freud
    • Understanding metapsychology with the computer paradigm, Volker Hartmann Cardelle, Dietmar Dietrich
    • Some considerations on the formal structure of freudian metapsychology, Franco Baldini, Maria Vittoria Ceschi, Edoardo Meroni
    • Why join the School of Freudian Psychoanalysis, Franco Baldini
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Studies and researches

The metapsychology of interpretation
Franco Baldini

This paper aims to show the deep connection between metapsychology and the technique of interpretation. Besides the subdivision between construction and interpretation, the motivations behind

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Eros and the Death Drive: one Libido, two regimes
Silvana Dalto

In the years between 1920 and 1924 Freud is engaged in a significant improvement of metapsychology, conceived as a physics of the subject. Freud is dealing with a redefinition of the economic principles that govern…

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Dualism drive and biological phenomena: a parallelism?
Valentino Gaffuri Riva

This paper will take into consideration the dual drive theory of the second Freudian topic, characterized by Eros and Thanatos, and will build an analogy between anabolic and catabolic tendencies…

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Metapsychology of obsessive neurosis: etiological and pathological mechanisms starting from the case of the Rat man
Edoardo Meroni

The importance of metapsychological theory is emphasized both for the purpose of an etiological understanding of psychoneurosis and for an articulated explanation of character and symptomatic manifestations…

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Responses to Schatzman’s purported critique of Freud on the clinical case of President Schreber. Precipitating etiological contributions of psychoanalysis on paranoia (part one)
Maria Grazia Tosto

This article, as pars destruens, constitutes the first of two parts of a study aimed towards a rereading of Freud’s Psycho-analytic notes (Psychoanalytische Bemerkungen, 1910) on the clinical case of President Schreber, described…

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Documents and debates

Letter to Karl Abraham dated 01.19.1908

Sigmund Freud

Understanding metapsychology with the computer paradigm
Volker Hartmann Cardelle, Dietmar Dietrich

In this article we want to assail the task of providing an answer to the much-disputed question whether psychoanalysis is, as Freud claimed, a natural science or not. We want to argue in favour of Freud’s view, but at the same time…

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Some considerations on the formal structure of freudian metapsychology
Franco Baldini, Maria Vittoria Ceschi, Edoardo Meroni

We will present a few brief general considerations about metapsychology, with particular reference to the arguments put forward in Volker Hartmann Cardelle and Dietmar Dietrich’s essay in this issue of the journal. In particular…

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Why join the School of Freudian Psychoanalysis

Franco Baldini