Hunger: the appetites of the mind 2023/1

MAY 2024

Summary

Studies and researches:

    • Naturalizing the mind. Ideas for a multidisciplinary reflection on the phenomenon of hunger, Franco Baldini
    • The psychic activity of human beings from a metapsychological perspective: a case study of Dick and Robert, Pamela Cagna
    • A comparison between Freud’s and Husserl’s conceptions on hunger drive, Silvana Dalto
    • The Drive Theory: Comparing Freud and Lacan, Stefania Olivier
    • Responses to Schatzman’s purported critique of Freud on the clinical case of President Schreber. Principal etiological contributions of psychoanalysis on paranoia (Second part), Maria Grazia Tosto

Documents and debates:

    • Letter to Sigmund Freud dated 03.31.1915, Karl Abraham
    • The art of fasting: the last short stories of Franz Kafka. With an appendix on Balzac, Michele Bertolini
    • Theoretical reflections on F. Kafka’s short story A Hunger Artist. Comment to The art of fasting by M. Bertolini, Annalena Guarnieri
    • Book presentation Transfert. Sette lezioni sulla teoria freudiana del trattamento psicanalitico, Franco Baldini
    • Reflections on the Christian-Sadian Society. Sadism as a perversion of the drive for knowledge, Edoardo Toffoletto
    • For an epistemology of psychoanalytic concepts. Considerations from F. Baldini, Transfert, Marco Ferrari
    • A commentary on the Marco Ferrari’s essay For an epistemology of psychoanalytic concepts, Franco Baldini

Studies and researches

Naturalizing the mind. Ideas for a multidisciplinary reflection on the phenomenon of hunger
Franco Baldini

This essay begins from the observation of the difficulty of modelling the phenomenon of hunger in its entirety, a difficulty consisting in the impossibility of passing seamlessly from the somatic to…

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The psychic activity of human beings from a metapsychological perspective: a case study of Dick and Robert.
Pamela Cagna

This article will resume, from a metapsychological perspective, some of the salient points of two infant clinical cases, those of Dick (Klein’s patient) and Robert (Lefort’s patient), on which an article was written in…

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A comparison between Freud’s and Husserl’s conceptions on hunger drive.
Silvana Dalto

A comparison is made between Freud’s and Husserl’s conceptions on the topic of drives and, in particular, hunger. Both do not envisage hunger only as a physiological concept. In fact…

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The Drive Theory: Comparing Freud and Lacan
Stefania Olivier

This article revisits the Freudian concept of drive, analysing its fundamental characteristics. In particular, it highlights the decisive role played by the self-preservation drives in the constitution of the Ego…

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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 (second part)
Maria Grazia Tosto

This article constitutes the second and final part of a study by the author devoted to a rereading of Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytic Notes (Psychoanalytische Bemerkungen, 1910) on the clinical case of…

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Documents and debates

Letter to Sigmund Freud dated 03.31.1915

Karl Abraham

The art of fasting: the last short stories of Franz Kafka. With an appendix on Balzac
Michele Bertolini

The essay proposes a reading of one of Kafka’s last short stories, A Hunger Artist, as an interpretive key to understanding some contemporary art practices marked by the poetics of silence, absence, subtraction, exile and…

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Theoretical reflections on F. Kafka’s short story A Hunger Artist. Comment to The art of fasting by M. Bertolini.
Annalena Guarnieri

In Bertolini’s essay The art of fasting: the last stories of Franz Kafka. With an appendix on Balzac, the author analyses widely from a sociological and literary
perspective the theme of hunger through an examination of the…

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Book presentation Transfert. Sette lezioni sulla teoria freudiana del trattamento psicanalitico

Franco Baldini

Reflections on the Christian-Sadian Society. Sadism as a perversion of the drive for knowledge. Considerations from F. Baldini, Transfert
Edoardo Toffoletto

The underlying theme of this contribution is the relationship between truth and love as expressed in Franco Baldini’s book, since it appears as the central question of psychoanalysis and its polarity through which one can…

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For an epistemology of psychoanalytic concepts. Considerations from F. Baldini, Transfert
Marco Ferrari

Starting from a comparison with Franco Baldini’s recent volume, Transfert. Sette lezioni sulla teoria freudiana del trattamento psicanalitico, this paper will aim to develop some remarks on the nature of what I have called the…

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A commentary on the Marco Ferrari's essay For an epistemology of psychoanalytic concepts

Franco Baldini