The aim of Dialogues is to promote an exchange, among foreign colleagues, on clinical and theoretical themes particularly meaningful for Italian Psychoanalysis. You will find three articles from the Rivista translated into English with comments from foreign psychoanalysts.
Anyone who wishes to leave a comment will find a space at the end of each article. Comments should be written in English (no longer than 5000 characters, including spaces). Before its publications, the comment will be read by yhe editorial board of the “Dialogue”.
Enchantments and disenchantments in the formation and use of psychoanalytic theories about psychic reality by Stefano Bolognini The aim of these reflections is to explore, from a viewpoint that is largely clinical (in the broad sense), using a wide-angle lens and in the full awareness that I can only be approximate, some examples of what really … Continue Reading »
I appreciate Bolognini’s attempt to limit the psychoanalysts’ frequent tendency toward triggering ‘wars of religion’. These controversies are not only ideological, but often influenced by psychoanalytic politics and practical interests of power, compromising the need of psychoanalysis to update its knowledge and modernize its clinical approach. The identification with the author (or theory), that … Continue Reading »
Comment on Enchantments and disenchantments in the formation and use of psychoanalytic theories about psychic reality by Stefano Bolognini. Abel Fainstein It is a great pleasure to have been invited to comment on Stefano´s very interesting paper. As others wrote, I agree that it helps to be aware of the relevance of conscious and unconscious … Continue Reading »
The paper written by Bolognini, an expert analyst and important representative of the IPA, offers many aspects to reflect on. From the point of view of the analytic practice, Bolognini invites us to supervise, thanks to the necessary split of the Ego, not only what happens in our own mind, into the patient’s mind … Continue Reading »
In his profound and sensitive paper, Stefano Bolognini enlightens the surprising realisation of how difficult is to get to the bottom of such complex and largely group dynamics as choices and conflicts among psychoanalysts and their groups about conceptual and technical orientations, notwithstanding analytic formation is well anchored in a deep individual analysis. Why is … Continue Reading »
Comments by Theodore Jacobs In this compelling and most important essay Stefano Bolognini has identified and elucidated one of the most troubling problems in the field of psychoanalysis; analysts’ emotionally driven adherence to the beliefs and theories espoused by their teachers, analysts, and training institutes. As analysts, we understand that the root of such a … Continue Reading »
Response to Stefano Bolognini It is a pleasure to engage with Stefano Bolognini’s work and its sureness of touch in approaching the fiery disputes and extreme loyalties, that, despite some loosening of the rigidities of the past, continue to plague psychoanalysis and its practitioners. We still observe our colleagues, but much more significantly, ourselves, … Continue Reading »
Comments by Fred Busch I always learn a great deal when I read something that Stefano Bolognini has written. This started when I read his paper on “empathism” (Bolognini, 1997), and continued to the present. My reaction to this paper is a little bit different in that I have written briefly about a similar topic … Continue Reading »
Comments by Nicola Abel-Hirsch As many readers will know Bolognini speaks from considerable experience. He is an ‘inside witness’ who was present at “plenary sessions at IPA Congresses in the eighties and nineties …producing three performances all rigorously impermeable to each other”; “a dark, austere church in Utrecht, during which a debate was held about … Continue Reading »
Comments by Leopoldo Bleger It’s a pleasure to discuss Stefano’s paper. I had the opportunity to see him working in the EPF and in the IPA with great skill and with a vision of the situation of psychoanalysis all around the world. His paper is certainly informed by his wide experience and can be read … Continue Reading »
