In his introduction to Tra il sapere e la cura, Francesco Conrotto thanks his students at the Italian Psychoanalytic Society in Rome for having inspired him to conduct an in-depth and comprehensive reflection on the foundation and development of psychoanalysis. This book is the answer to their quest for greater understanding of Freud's thinking. Conrotto, the author of numerous influential works, combs through Freud's writings, culling and examining details—some unfamiliar but all significant—of what can be known about Freud's thinking and how it led to and affected future developments. He believes that without rediscovering and reappraising Freud's thinking, it will be impossible to consider what should