From Lacan in Italy to SpazioZero - Paperback

This book puts into written word a part of the story of psychoanalysis in the last three decades of the Italian twentieth century. A few years have passed, and those events seem to have ended up in the drawer of the twentieth century's oblivion, but at that time, ideas and projects, proposals and accelerations acted, which have changed and shattered, failing to provide continuity to what remained only residual of psychoanalysis: its secularism, as claimed by Freud in 1926 in Laienanalyse. Now we are left to become historians, chroniclers. With this chronicle, we do not intend to fix history and tie it to an era now past, but we intend to allow the reopening of a research discourse for a psychoanalysis of the new millennium. It is an indispensable act to face our contemporaneity without the prejudices of a reading that treats the malaise of being only as a pathological element of the individual's life. Psychoanalysis is in its history, in the constant need to reinvent its position and its clinic. Topics addressed by the SpazioZero Commissions, which are still very current and open, such as the training of the analyst, the nomination, and its position in care, were tackled. Some solutions that have occurred so far have neglected many contributions from those protagonists of that time, which can certainly and rightfully be rediscovered. Doing so could reopen decidedly formative theoretical questions, while forgetting them will certainly not be the solution to things. Our contemporaneity, in its increasingly overwhelming paths, calls us to rediscover the meaning of the experience of psychoanalysis, as Lacan reminded us: If psychoanalysis can become a science – since it is not yet – and if it must not degenerate into its technique and perhaps it is already a done deal – we must rediscover the meaning of its experience. Authors: Franco Quesito