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This issue of the International Forum of Psychoanalysis is centered around some of the papers presented at the XIV Forum of Psychoanalysis, organized by the Società Italiana di Psicoanalisi della Relazione (SIPRe), an IFPS member society, which took place in Rome in May 2006.
In the past few decades, deep and rapid transformations have taken place in psychoanalysis. This allows us to look at it in a new light, and stimulates us to try to elaborate a critical review of its main theoretical and clinical developments. Moreover, psychoanalytic groups and schools of thought are more open and interested in engaging in interdisciplinary dialogue with related sciences, so that psychoanalytic knowledge can be confronted with other scientific perspectives on human beings. As a consequence, most important psychoanalytic topics can be updated. As the contents of the panels show, the Forum focused on wide and crucial issues for our theoretical approach and clinical work in psychoanalysis.
The theme of the XIV Forum, “The interplay between internal and external world,” expressed the aim of creating a link between the intrapsychic dimension and “environmental” experiences. It is a wide and multifaceted topic that—even though it has been treated according to different psychoanalytic points of view and different orientations—seems to dominate psychoanalytic debate. By choosing this theme, the XIV Forum aimed to promote a debate that has of course to take into account the deep, internal personal dimension of psychic life. This dimension is an undeniable tradition of psychoanalysis in its historical origin and development. At the same time, the Forum's papers intended to emphasize the dynamic interplay and complex interlacement that internal variables entertain with the external parameters within the ongoing construction of the psychic subject. After the Pre-forum day, the Forum activities developed along 4 days, each of which presented a panel that developed a specific theme. Panel top