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After qualifying as a psychiatrist, Fanny Schkolnik trained in psychoanalysis at the Uruguayan Psychoanalytic Association (Asociación Psicoanalítica del Uruguay), where she remains actively involved in the society's intellectual life. The author of numerous papers, several of which are republished here in Práctica Psicoanalítica, Schkolnik has long focused on understanding, through an intertwining of metapsychology and clinical experience, the forces that lead to psychic change.
In this book, neatly interwoven along three axes—narcissism and its boundaries, symbolization, and working through—the reader will find the central concerns of Schkolnik's psychoanalytic thinking discussed both candidly and in depth. In maintaining this open stance, she invites readers to question their implicit theories by conveying her own intellectual movement, creating a succession of “spiraling” progressive ideas around her reflections on clinical work.
Schkolnik studies symbolization in the psyche, a process that provides words for psychic traces that, despite their being foreign to the subject, affect the subject's life. Schkolnik reviews the concept of narcissism, considering its polysemic aspects and different forms of expression. The term narcissism has multiple meanings, which include a type of drive-directedness, an evolving state of libido, a libidinal answer to the loss of the object, and, finally, character pathology. In her clinical practice, Schkolnik takes all of these perspectives into account, adding her personal contributions to her understanding of the analytic process. She proposes a notion of psychic phenomena that she describes as scenes that present themselves in a