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At the IX Forum of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) in Florence, May 12-15, 1994, the participants received a questionnaire prepared by the Italian organizational committee. With the permission of the committee we publish the questions and thus give our readers a possibility to comment on them. You can send your views to the Editorial Office (for address see cover page 2). Together with the Florentine organizational committee we will try to find a form for presenting the answers.
The Editor
The organizing society of the IX Forum IFPS, the “Istituto di Psicoterapia Analitica” of Florence, would like to avail itself of the presence of so many psychoanalysts from all over the world and to take the opportunity of asking some questions on the future of psychoanalytical work and the pathologies which are now being faced and, in the final analysis, on man, his doubts and his fears.
If hysteria was the pathology of the 19th century, depression that of the 20th century, what will be the pathology of the 21st century?
The turn of the first millenium created apocalyptic scenarios in the images of the collective unconscious. With what fears or expectations is man advancing towards the second?
The crisis in the couple relationship is revolutionising the concepts of masculine and feminine with consequent deep gender identity crises in the men and women of our time. “Here comes the time of the androgyne…” wrote Apollinaire. How will the 20th century psychoanalysis be able to understand and help this awkward moment of growth?
Has the image of family changed in our patients' experience? If so, how?
The dissociation, which is now peculiar to the family structure, is engendering the giddy increase in infant pathologies. Is current infant psychoanalysis able to help the child growth process?
Will technological achievements be of help to the psychoanalyst in his/her work?
We are living in a society essentially built on power-based relationships, which in Fromm's v