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Infant Research between Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology
and I think I am in Piazza del Duomo while sitting in my chair in the studio: am I "in" Piazza del Duomo? If I "dream" of being there while sleeping in my bed: in the dream, am I "in" Piazza del Duomo? Am I closer to my being in wakefulness or in the dream? These questions refer to the sense of being and thus to ontology; to a being understood as something other than mere, objective presence in a spatial point. The Author embarks on a journey starting from traditional psychoanalytic thought, passing through Infant Research, immersing in phenomenology and Heideggerian ontology to explore the ontological foundations of psychoanalysis. It is no longer sufficient to question the implicit epistemological referents that guide psychoanalytic knowledge, but it is necessary to delve deeper to grasp the sense of being that we implicitly attribute to the analytical interaction. If we find the courage to descend into the abyss, we discover that the meaning of everything, every sense, arises from nothingness or rather from absence. An absence in which we are unconsciously immersed and that existential, not symptomatic, anxiety allows us to glimpse and utilize in grasping the sense of time and being. Being that, in its essence – following Heidegger – "is" time. What mental disposition can adhere to such ontological foundations? And thus, what analysis technique is consistent with these premises? The Author outlines a path that passes through Bionism and post-Bionism, adding concepts that intersect words like "free-floating attention" (Freud), "without memory and desire" (Bion), "Epoché" as suspension of judgment (Husserl), "absence" and, again, Ereignis, that is the "event of being" (Heidegger) that must be able to flow, witnessing the co-belonging of being and thought; thus thought that traces furrows in the field of being and directs us towards the other but also leads us into a clinical practice that becomes increasingly unknown…
number of pages: 534
Author: Paolo Milanesi