In Session, on the Thread of Affect and Emotion: Contemporary Approaches

Editor : Be´atrice Ithier

In Session, on the Thread of Affect and Emotion: Contemporary Approaches

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  • Publisher : Karnac Books
  • Published : April 2025
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 166
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 97983
  • ISBN 13 : 9781800133044
  • ISBN 10 : 1800133049
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With contributions from Sara Boffito, Lesley Caldwell, Roosevelt Cassorla, Giuseppe Civitarese, Maria Teresa Flores, Be´atrice Ithier, Howard B. Levine, Ruggero Levy, Mauro Manica, Maria Grazia Oldoïni, and Rene´ Roussillon.

Contemporary psychoanalytic thought has revolutionised psychoanalysis by placing emotion at the heart of the analytical process. This book focuses on the affect and emotion of leading international authors who represent this pioneering new metapsychology of links, which connects the work of Winnicott and Bion.

In Session, on the Thread of Affect and Emotion: Contemporary Approaches is divided into four parts. The first looks at the Freudian and Bionian models and the book begins its journey with an investigation of Freudian metapsychology from Rene´ Roussillon. The second part explores the aesthetic dimension of psychoanalysis and the link with truth, with a focus on emotions, dreams, and non-dreams. The third part concerns defensive issues experienced by the analyst and patient in the consulting room and the fourth and final part concerns the intersubjectivity of affect. Mauro Manica and Maria Grazia Oldoïni highlight the shift that occurred with Melanie Klein and confirmed by Wilfred Bion in his theory of early links between love, hate, knowledge.

It is interesting to see the differing approaches of these contributors from many different countries: France, Italy, Portugal, Brazil, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Whilst their approach to affect and emotion is influenced by their own cultural specificities and creativity, they all emphasise not only the shared affect, but also the emotional presence between the two protagonists. In this way, they give access to the deepest affective sediments, making this a must-read for all practising psychoanalysts and those with an academic interest.

Table of Contents

About the editor and contributors
Introduction by Béatrice Ithier

Part I. Freudian model/Bionian model: Which metapsychology for affect and emotion?
1. Freud’s psychoanalytical concept of affect
René Roussillon (Lyon, France)

2. Dawn of the psyche, epiphany of emotion
Béatrice Ithier (Paris, France and Pavia, Italy)

3. Affect, emotion, sensations, feelings: Notes towards a metapsychology of the psychoanalytical experience 31
Howard B. Levine (Boston, USA)

Part II. The aesthetic dimension of psychoanalysis: The link with truth
4. Emotions, dreams, non-dreams, and the aesthetics of validation in the analytic field
Roosevelt Cassorla (Campinas, Brazil)

5. Truth and the aesthetic dimension of psychoanalysis
Ruggero Levy (Porto Alegre, Brazil)

Part III. Which defences?
6. The emotional or its absence from the session: Defensive issues experience by the analyst or the patient
Maria Teresa Flores (Lisbon, Portugal)

7. Affect and emotion in the consulting room
Lesley Caldwell (London, England)

Part IV. The intersubjectivity of affect
8. Emotions and affects in analysis: Becoming O
Mauro Manica and Maria Grazia Oldoïni (Genoa, Italy)

9. The world of us: Towards an intersubjective theory of affect
Giuseppe Civitarese and Sara Boffito (Pavia, Italy and Milano, Italy)

Index

About the Editor(s)

Béatrice Ithier is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and a full member of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society and the Italian Psychoanalytical Society (Pavia). She is recognised as a child, adolescent, and adult psychoanalyst by the International Psychoanalytical Association and is an honorary member of the Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Warsaw, where she teaches. She was a former editor of the Revue française de psychanalyse and of the Organising Committee of the Congress of French- Speaking Psychoanalysts. She is the author of numerous books and articles (International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Revue française de psychanalyse) published in France and elsewhere; of international analytical culture, she is involved in the Kleinian and post- Kleinian, Bionian, and post-Bionian heritage.

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