The freudian method

NOVEMBER 2020

Sommario:

New considerations on the Freudian psychoanalytic method and in general on the empirical rational architecture of metapsychology, Franco Baldini
Epistemological reflections on some aspects of Freudian methodology, Maria Vittoria Ceschi
Die of hunger. Two clinical cases and a new etiological hypothesis, Pamela Cagna
Some psychoanalytic considerations on anorexia, Cinzia Zangari
Notes on The Horla by Maupassant, Annalena Guarnieri
The transcendental architecture of Freud’s metapsychology (Part 2), Francesca Guma
Metapsychology of catachresis, Fabio Ognibene
Nature and functions of language and thought in Freudian conception,, Luca Salvador
First approaches to a formal dynamic of the mind, Gabriele Lami

Papers

New considerations on the Freudian psychoanalytic method and in general on the empirical rational architecture of metapsychology

Franco Baldini

There is a general indifference by psychologists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts towards the issue of rational justification for their therapeutic practices…

Epistemological reflections on some aspects of Freudian methodology

Maria Vittoria Ceschi

The objective of this work is to provide epistemological assessments of the architecture, the hypotheses and the logical laws which underpin the Freudian method of investigation…

Die of hunger. Two clinical cases and a new etiological hypothesis.

Pamela Cagna

The self-preservation drives are, for Klein, Lefort and Lacan not true drives and do not play any significant role in the psychological genesis of the subject…

Some psychoanalytic considerations on anorexia

Cinzia Zangari

Over the past 50 years, anorexia has been the center of several studies the aim of which is not only to investigate the underlying causes…

Notes on The Horla by Maupassant

Annalena Guarnieri

The interpretations by O. Rank and J. Lacan of the tale The Horla by Maupassant are not convincing, they refer to the Horla as the depiction of a double…

The transcendental architecture of Freud’s metapsychology (Part 2)

Francesca Guma

Metapsychology doesn’t only emerge from a transcendental perspective, but it develops internally bringing with it profound enrichment…

Metapsychology of catachresis

Fabio Ognibene

The rhetorical figure called catachresis has been defined from the need to designate an object or a concept devoid of a proper name…

Nature and functions of language and thought in Freudian conception

Luca Salvador

The article presents a description of the functions of language in the way it emerges from the works of Freud, starting from the neuropsychological texts on aphasia up to the metapsychological texts of maturity…

First approaches to a formal dynamic of the mind

Gabriele Lami

The topic of this article is the introduction of some key elements to address the discussion of a metapsychological dynamic of the mind…