Contact details
Via Lentasio 7, Milano
Tel. +39 3334264712 | + 39 02 58430671
email: f.baldini@scuoladipsicanalisifreudiana.it | baldinisenior@gmail.com
Transfert – Sette lezioni sulla teoria freudiana del trattamento psicanalitico, Mimesis Edizioni, 2023
Franco Baldini was born in Piacenza in 1953, lives and works in Milan. He followed the traditional psychoanalytic training and has been present for over forty years on the international scene. Currently, he is the scientific director of the School of Freudian Psychoanalysis. He has held conferences, courses and seminars in various Italian, European and North American universities. He has published about fifty papers in Italian, German, French and English on topics ranging from methodology to epistemology, from clinics to anthropology. In 1995 – with the paper “Freud’s line of reasoning” – he obtained the important result of demonstrating how the Freudian clinical method is actually a very sophisticated form of falsification of weak theoretical statements. He is currently working on the construction of psychoanalytic objectivity in a neo-Kantian perspective and on the integration between psychoanalysis and neuroscience, as well as directing a research group on the physical-mathematical formalization of Freudian metapsychology.
Relevant publications:
– Psicopatologia della ragione: un contributo freudiano al problema dell’oggettività della dottrina razionalista, in L’oggettività della conoscenza scientifica, a cura di Fabio Minazzi, Franco Angeli, Milano, 1996.
– Etica e metodo: il contributo della psicanalisi all’edificazione di una civiltà delle scienze: in Etica e medicina, a cura di Fabio Minazzi, Thélema edizioni, Milano, 1997.
– La métapsychologie freudienne comme micro-physique de la conscience, in Aux sources de la psychanalyse: une analyse des premiers écrits de Freud (1877-1900), dirigé par Filip Geerardin et Gertrudis Van de Vijver, L’Harmattan, Paris et Montréal, 1998.
– Freud’s line of reasoning: a note about epistemic and clinical inconsistency of Grünbaum’s argument pretending to confute Freud’s therapeutic approach, with reference to the thesis of Stengers on psychoanalysis, in Adolf Grünbaum: a critical analysis, Gertrudis Van de Vijver ed., Psychoanalytische Perspektieven n. 32-33, 1998, Ghent University.
– Gli insuccessi della formazione analitica, in Freud e la psicanalisi laica, a cura di Silvana Dalto ed Enzo Gardenghi, Thélema edizioni, Milano, 2000.
– Vailati-Freud: un incontro mancato, in I mondi di carta di Giovanni Vailati, a cura di Mauro de Zan, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2000.
– Who’s the author of Freud’s Works? Confutation of A critique of Freud’s preanalytic and psychoanalytic dream-theory by Adolf Grünbaum, Gertrudis Van de Vijver ed., Psychoanalytische Perspektieven, 2000, Ghent University.
– Una nota a proposito del significato della Primavera di Botticelli, in Episteme – An International Journal of Science, History and Philosophy, n. 3, Morlacchi Editore, Perugia, aprile 2001.
– Et in arcadia ego: semantiche mito-ermetiche in Guercino e Poussin (1° parte), in Episteme – An International Journal of Science, History and Philosophy, n. 4, Morlacchi Editore, Perugia, settembre 2001.
– Et in arcadia ego: semantiche mito-ermetiche in Guercino e Poussin (2° parte), in Episteme – An International Journal of Science, History and Philosophy, n. 5, Porzi Editoriali, Perugia, marzo 2002.
– Il razionalismo di Geymonat e il problema della naturalizzazione del cogito, in Filosofia, scienza e vita civile nel pensiero di Ludovico Geymonat, La città del sole, Reggio Calabria, 2006, pp 251-275.
– In ictu oculi, in Apokalips curated by Giacomo Maria Prati 14 giugno 27 luglio 2012 Grattacielo Pirelli, Vanilla edizioni, Milano, 2012, pp.50-52.
– On crucial excerpts from Freud’s work and on Lacan’s complete misunderstanding of them, in Metapsychologica – Rivista di psicanalisi freudiana, no.1 (2019), pp. 13-34.
– with Zangari C., Freud’s return in clinical practice: the case of countertransference, in Metapsychologica – Rivista di psicanalisi freudiana,no.1 (2019), pp. 185-205.
– New considerations on the Freudian psychoanalytic method and in general on the empirical rational architecture of metapsychology, Metapsychologica – Rivista di psicanalisi freudiana,no.1 (2020), pp. 5-38
– On the Freudian concept of psychoanalysis: an interview with Franco Baldini, Metapsychologica – Rivista di psicanalisi freudiana, no.1 (2021), pp. 5-41.
– Response to Memory on lay psychoanalysis by Prof. Dazzi and Prof. Lingiardi, Metapsychologica – Rivista di psicanalisi freudiana, no.1 (2021), pp. 187-203.
– A note on a misinterpreted verdict of the Court of Cassation. (Appendix to my «Answer to Memory on “lay psychoanalysis” by Prof. Dazzi and Prof. Lingiardi»), Metapsychologica – Rivista di psicanalisi freudiana, no.1 (2021), pp. 205-211.
– A long series of mistakes and a conviction. (Examining a new verdict in the Court of Cassation), Metapsychologica – Rivista di psicanalisi freudiana, no.1 (2021), pp. 213-217.
– Metapsicologia dell’interpretazione, Metapsychologica – Rivista di psicanalisi freudiana, no.1 (2022), pp. 5-20.
– with Ceschi M. V., Meroni E., Some considerations on the formal structure of freudian metapsychology, Metapsychologica – Rivista di psicanalisi freudiana, no.1 (2022), pp. 165-186.
– Why join the School of Freudian Psychoanalysis, Metapsychologica – Rivista di psicanalisi freudiana, no.1 (2022), pp. 187-193.
– Transfert – Sette lezioni sulla teoria freudiana del trattamento psicanalitico, Mimesis Edizioni, 2023