Reflections on Contemporary Psychoanalytic Thought

Rui Aragão Oliveira is a full member and supervising analyst of the Portuguese Psychoanalytical Society (PPS) and International Psychoanalytical Association. He is the director of the training committee of the PPS, past president of the PPS, past editor-in-chief of the Portuguese Psychoanalytical Review, and past editor of Psychoanalysis Today. He teaches at the Psychoanalytical Institute in Lisbon and has been working with clinical groups for the IPA with the three level model. He has published on the theory of technique, paternal function, and clinical issues. Maria José Gonçalves is a medical doctor, child psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, child psychoanalyst, and full member and supervising analyst of the Portuguese Psychoanalytical Society (PPS) and International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). She is the former president of the PPS Board and Institute Board, and past director of the PPS Training Committee. In the PPS Institute, she promotes the training on psychoanalytic ethics. She was a former director of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of the Pediatric Hospital in Lisbon, where she founded a mental health infancy unit. She has published numerous papers, especially on infant psychoanalysis and on clinical issues. João Seabra Diniz is a full member and supervising analyst of the Portuguese Psychoanalytical Society (PPS) and International Psychoanalytical Association. He started his psychoanalytic training in Italy and continued it in Lisbon at SPP. For many years, he was involved in the formation of candidates for psychoanalysis. He is past president of the SPP and of the Institute of Psychoanalysis of Lisbon/SPP. He is the former director of the Social Action Service at Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, and worked in the childhood and youth sector, where he collaborated in the launch of Adoption in Portugal. For some years, he collaborated with the Center for Judicial Studies, training in matters related to the abandonment and adoption of children. He is former national director of the Family and Child Support Project—PAFAC. He was a member of the National Commission for the International Year of the Child.

Acknowledgements

About the editors and contributors

Introduction



Part I

Psychoanalysis and contemporaneity



Introduction by Maria José Gonçalves

1. The institutional dynamics of psychoanalysis: the effect of the “development threatening idea”

R. D. Hinshelwood



Introduction by Maria José Gonçalves

2. Freud and culture

Éric Smadja



Introduction by João Seabra Diniz

3. The disappeared: a sorrow without dreams

Leopold Nosek



Introduction by Rui Aragão Oliveira

4. Virtual space, identity, and psychoanalysis: a new world or a dreadful voyage?

Andrea Marzi



Introduction by João Seabra Diniz

5. Contemporary hysterical body

Fernando Orduz



Introduction by Rui Aragão Oliveira

6. Connecting the International Psychoanalytical Association to our psychoanalytical community

Sérgio Eduardo Nick



Introduction by João Seabra Diniz

7. From the glass slipper to the glass ceiling

Virginia Ungar



Part II

Theory of psychoanalytic technique



Introduction by Rui Aragão Oliveira

8. Towards a two-track model for psychoanalysis

Howard B. Levine



Introduction by João Seabra Diniz

9. Who is killing what or whom: some notes on the internal phenomenology of suicide

David Bell



Introduction by Rui Aragão Oliveira

10. Achieving the elasticity of technique: Sándor Ferenczi’s psychoanalytic project and journey

Franco Borgogno



Introduction by Maria José Gonçalves

11. Ferenzci’s ideas in contemporary psychoanalysis: Ferenczi’s contribution to the psychoanalytic theory of trauma and further developments

Luis J. Martín Cabré





Final thoughts

Index