22 May 2024
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...
23 June 2023
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
23 June 2023
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...
23 June 2023
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...
5 October 2020
The topic of this article is the introduction of some key elements to address the discussion of a metapsychological dynamic of the mind...
22 August 2019
Freud’s notion of the subject has been misunderstood by all trends in psychoanalysis that followed his death...
22 August 2019
When reviewing metapsychology to assess its aptness to mathematical formalism, one encounters objects akin to the typical...
22 August 2019
The present work, which covers topics in the theory of knowledge, heuristics and control methods, describes Freud’s epistemological stance...