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| Criticism of Freudian Metapsychology and new Metapsychologies |
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Metapsychology, thus called by Freud with some hesitation (see correspondence with Fliess), includes five books (instead of nine, which had originally been planned) written by Freud in 1915. There he laid the foundations of Freudian psychoanalysis, known as the “Drive Theory”, or better Energy-and-Drive Theory. By formulating the concepts of drive, libido, repression, Ego, Id, and Super Ego, Freud wanted to explain psychic development and the whole functioning of the mind and he set up a an explicative framework for the concept of the Unconscious. Freud’s intention was not merely descriptive so as to understand the psyche, he also wanted to explain its functioning in terms of sciences of Nature. The theoretical formulations were gradually improved by Freud and then preserved for more than 70 years, making up the unquestioned doctrine of all psychoanalysts. As a consequence, still today ninety years later, psychoanalysis is still generally identified with Freudian theory.
But in every science, as it gradually progresses, theories change –and psychoanalytic theories describing the origins, development and functioning of the mind have changed as well. It was and still is a laborious change: many psychoanalysts today hesitate in abandoning the Freudian theory, even though Freud himself questioned it, jokingly calling it “the witch”. His “Metapsychology witch”, or rather his Drive Theory, might still have a metaphoric descriptive value as to understand human subjectivity, but can no longer be sustained today with the explanatory value Freud wanted to give it. Hence, the misapprehension of many psychoanalysts.
My studies in this field are part of the effort made by many scholars to deny the current explicative value of Freudian theory, however maintaining its clinical value and outlining new theories instead. In so doing, we fight the establishment and ostracism of Psychoanalytical Societies. Nowadays, thanks also to the contribution of neuroscience, it is possible to outline a new Metapsychology; hence, the intention and the object of my research.
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Psychoanalytic foundations of Clinical Psychology
UTET Libreria, Torino, 1994, vol. pp. 511 |
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The psychoanalyst Identity and the "phantasy" about Theory
Rivista di Psicoanalisi, 1999, 45, (1), pp. 95-105 |
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| See the Magazine |
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What Inconscious?
Revista de Psicanalìse da Sociedade Psicanalítica de Porto Alegre, 2000, 7, (1), pp. 11-35 |
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What an Unconscious? Contructing symbolization processes
Psichiatria e Psicoterapia Analitica, 2001, 20, (2), pp. 125-142 |
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| See the Magazine |
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What an Unconscious (revision)
Revista de Psìcanalise da Sociedade Psicanalitica de Porto Alegre, 2001, 8, (1), pp. 65-88 |
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The Unconscious as Symbolopoiesis
The Psychoanalytic Review, 2001, 88, 837-873 |
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| See the Magazine |
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An Explanatory Theory for Psychoanalysis
International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 2002, 11, (3), pp. 173-183 |
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A proposal for an explanatory Theory in Psychoanalysis
Rivista di Psicoanalisi, 2004, 50, (2), 351-372 |
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An outline of Psycholgy for Health and Social Staff
Piccin, Padova, 2004, vol. pp. 514 |
| Imbasciati, Antonio - Margiotta, Marco |
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Sexuality and the Energy-and-Drive Theory. Freud and the wrong these in his genious course
Franco Angeli, Milano, 2005, vol. pp. 109 |
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Psychoanalysis and Cognitivism: a new Theory for Psychoanalysis
Armando Editore, Roma, 2005, vol. pp. 127 |
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Constructing a mind. A new base for psychoanalytic Theory
Brunner-Routledge, London, 2006, vol. pp. 259 |
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New Metapsychologies
Psychofenia, 2007, X, 16, 143-163 |
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Neurosciences and Psychoanalysis: we need a new metapsychology
Revue Française de Psychanalyse, 2007, LXXI, 2, 455-477 |
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Psychoanalitic Foundations of Clinical Psychology - New edition
UTET Libreria - De Agostini, Torino, 2007, vol. pp. 281 |
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