Psychoanalysis in a Semiotic Key. Implications for Psychoanalytic Theory

Professor of Dynamic Psychology at the Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Salento. His research focuses on the psychodynamic and semiotic theorization of psychological and social phenomena, as well as on methodologies for analyzing socio-cultural and mental processes conceived as field dynamics. He is also engaged in the study of psychological intervention across various contexts, including socio-political, community, educational, organizational, and clinical settings. On these topics, he has led numerous scientific projects and has published over 300 works, including books, book chapters, and journal articles.

Psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst (Société Psychanalytique de Paris). He works in private practice in Nantes, France. His main analytic interests in psychoanalysis have been in Matte Blanco’s work, epistemology and psychoanalytic pluralism. Among other papers he published “Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth. The Secret of Counterdepressive Narratives”, “Matte Blanco’s Thought and Epistemological Pluralism in Psychoanalysis”, “Matte-Blanco and Narrativity: Hitchcock’s Vertigo” (International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2005, 2011 and 2013) and “Psychopathologie et pluralismeépistémologique” (Psychiatrie Française, n° 1, 2013).

Psychotherapist and Director of the Specialization Institute in Analytic Psychotherapy for Individuals and Groups (SPAIG). He is President of the Association for Psychoanalysis of the Educational Relationship (APRE) and adjunct professor at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata.” His work focuses on the theory and practice of psychoanalytic intervention, with particular attention to the educational and institutional dimensions of the therapeutic relationship.

Professor of Dynamic Psychology at the Giustino Fortunato University (Benevento, Italy). He is a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst. His research focuses on subjectivity, affectivity, semiotic model of mind, liminality and borders, temporality, narration and sensemaking processes starting from a psychoanalytic, cultural psychology and semiotic perspective. He is the author of over 200 international and national scientific works, in the various formats of papers/books/essays/chapters. He is Editor and member of Scientific Board of several international journals of psychology and psychoanalysis. He is Scientific Director of the Research Laboratory on Liminality of Psychic and Collective Processes.