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

Editor : Be´atrice Ithier

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