Giuseppe Civitarese: 9 books

Soffermarsi su che cosa rappresenti oggi la casa in varie parti del mondo, su come stia cambiando, o sull’importanza di “fare casa”, ci obbliga a riflettere su noi stessi, sulle nostre radici e sul rapporto coi nostri vicini, soprattutto con quelli costretti a risiedere ai “margini”. Intersecando...

What is the truth of the unconscious? Truth and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis explores the intersection of these two concepts within a Bionian framework. Giuseppe Civitarese maps out the unconscious in psychoanalysis, and focuses on the differences between the Freudian, Kleinian, Bionian and Lacanian...

Losing Your Head: Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict, and Psychoanalytic Criticism looks at the subject of beheading in art as a trope of the destruction of the mind. This book discusses both psychoanalytic theory and art criticism. It addresses critics, readers, and spectators interested in the keys of...

In The Violence of Emotions the author marries an ability to introduce the reader to the intimate climate of an analytic session with a passionate rereading of Bion. To emphasize both the empirical nature of psychoanalysis and its extraordinary capacity to engender illuminating hypotheses concerning...

Sublime Subjects explores two fundamental questions: what is the start of humanity? When and how does a newborn child become a subject? These are relevant to psychoanalysis not only theoretically, but also in clinical practice, where the issue at stake is how to help the analysand’s mind to grow...

The Analytic Field and its Transformations presents a collection of articles, written jointly by the authors in recent years, all revolving around the post-Bionian model of the analytic field - Bionian Field Theory (BFT). Going hand-in-hand with the ever-growing interest in Bion in general, analytic...

Cos’è diventata l’interpretazione psicoanalitica dei sogni? I sogni sono ancora la via regia per l’inconscio? Che significato hanno nel dialogo analitico? Che ruolo nella clinica? Sono alcune delle domande cui il libro risponde, raccontando l’affascinante traiettoria della teoria del sogno da Freud a Klein, Bion, Meltzer, Ogden, Ferro.

An Apocryphal Dictionary of Psychoanalysis is a book of transpositions, collecting together the author’s clinical vignettes, enigmatic objects, stray thoughts, projects, images, notes from readings, and musings; but also remarks on films and exhibitions, memories, episodes from daily life, summaries...

After a hundred years of psychoanalysis, what has the psychoanalytic interpretation of dreams now become? Are what Simic calls "the films of our lives" still the royal road to the unconscious or do we now have a different concept both of dreams and of the unconscious? What is the meaning...