Editorial

The new Editors of the Rivista di Psicoanalisi have decided to devote their first focus, developed in collaboration with the section Dialogues on Contemporaneity and Interdisciplinary Researches, to a theme that is much «visited» by psychoanalysts, philosophers, anthropologists, sociologists, and (unfortunately) politicians, but here it is approached from a new and original viewpoint expressed by the anthropologist Francesco Remotti. In fact, this Author calls radically into question two concepts which psychoanalysis has itself made a constant topic for reflection, those of identity and the individual. And yet, beyond its radical nature, as expressed in the concepts of SiDif and codividual, Remotti's suggestion finds unexpected points of convergence with the spheres of psychoanalysis (and philosophy) which revolve around «co-»: this humble prefix which, in the form of the mit and dasein of phenomenology and phenomenological psychiatry, or in the idea of the other and Einfühlung (empathy or rather entropathy) of twentieth-century philosophy from Martin Buber to Paul Ricoeur, from Edith Stein to Emmanuel Levinas, and lastly in the inter of interpersonal and intersubjective psychoanalysis, or in the concepts of field and third in psychoanalysis of a Bionian orientation (and not only there), has revolutionised the human sciences and, more recently, added its substantial weight to the sphere of the neurosciences as well.

The aim of the focus is to convey the pregnancy of the topic through the term codividuation. On the one hand, this echoes Remotti's epistemological proposition aimed at suggesting that a conception traditionally centred on the individual should be replaced with one based on the condividual; on the other, it suffers from the same (fertile?) semantic ambiguity as the term «identity». Indeed, while it refers to the identical - though in order to reassert the transformative potential of discontinuity (at least in the most widespread sense this is given in con