Conference: The Metapsychological Handling of “Emptiness” and “Negative”: Psychoanalytic Examples

Conference Institute of Classical Psychoanalysis The Metapsychological Handling of “Emptiness” and “Negative”: Psychoanalytic Examples Introduction Despite the individual, numerous, and scatteredtheoretical positions of psychoanalysis—Kleinian, Freudian, Winnicottian, Lacanian, Bionian, etc.—nearly 150 years after the pioneer Sigmund Freud, we still lack a […]

Book Publication from Vassilis Maoutsos

We often become witnesses of people doubting psychoanalysis as regards her fundamentals and her clinical effectiveness. This is despite the reality which tells us that since Freud abandoned the ‘Project’ and started methodically to investigate the ‘unconscious’ he gradually and firmly developed all the pre-conditions for a successful treatment of ‘neuroses’, to say the least. And yet, the psychoanalytic world in a rather paradoxical way insisted in its medically-oriented use of the nature of psychoanalysis and to elbow aside her main ingredient i.e her determining ‘metapsychological’ dimention.