The 2025/2026 programme focuses on the theme Nosography, Clinic, Metapsychology: Theoretical Clarifications. The aim is to expose the imposture behind the so-called “new pathologies”, a notion widely embraced in mainstream psychoanalysis today.
Over the past fifty years, classical nosography has been thoroughly dismantled and reduced to a mere catalogue of symptoms (see DSM). These symptoms, once stripped of their structural and metapsychological contexts, are now presented as if they constitute new disorders—requiring new therapies. This shift has led to the widespread inflation of symptomatology and a deep-rooted psychiatrisation of society as a whole. In order to remain relevant within this new paradigm, many psychoanalysts have gone along with this imposture, thereby undermining the methodological rigour and diagnostic framework that Freud painstakingly developed.
The course aims to expose in detail the principal nosographic errors—such as those concerning anorexia and bulimia, narcissistic disorders, dyslexia, youth psychopathologies, and the borderline label, among others.
Various clinical cases will be presented to allow participants to witness firsthand the accuracy of these critiques.
These and other issues will be addressed in a broader study aimed at restoring recognition of the unique value of Freudian nosography and the concepts and methodology underpinning it—far from outdated, as is often claimed—and of the substantial theoretical and practical advantages it continues to offer to psychoanalytic practice.
The seminar is open to the public and will consist of 15 biweekly lectures, held on Saturday mornings at 10:30 a.m. at the Scuola di Psicanalisi Freudiana headquarters (Via Lentasio 7, Milan).
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