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This volume of the IFP (1/2013) completes the presentation of the papers delivered at the XVIth International Forum of Psychoanalysis, a congress of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) held in Athens, Greece, on 20–23 October 2010, with the publication of the remaining six (out of eight) articles constituting Part IV, Aspects of Intersubjectivity: Historical Precursors and Developments.
The two papers from Part IV published in the preceding volume were “Ferenczi and otherness: Notes for an ‘ideal lesson’” (Franco Borgogno) and “Freud, Ferenczi and the disbelief on the Acropolis” (Carlo Bonomi); the other six, all of them of considerable theoretical, historical and educational interest, are presented below.
Rainer Funk presented a paper on “Erich Fromm and the intersubjective tradition”, in which he argues that, in addition to being one of the founders of the IFPS in the 1960s, Erich Fromm was also one of the forerunners of the intersubjective tradition in psychoanalysis and of relational psychoanalysis. Like Sullivan, Fromm looked at man primarily as a social being, but laid much more emphasis on his being moulded by societal requirements and by an intersubjectivity that is determined by strivings originating in the structure of his social character. Fromm's “societal” orientation towards psychoanalysis is still of relevance to understanding how the intersubjective and intrapsychic are interwoven in each individual and how social changes are influential to the individual's welfare or suffering. The author concludes that Fromm's revision of psychoanalysis makes possible insights into what is going on psychically not only in the individual but also in society.
Marco Conci follows with a paper on “Sullivan and the intersubjective perspective”, dealing mainly with Sullivan's interpersonal theory which, he argues, is the best theoretical framework for the contemporary intersubjective perspective in psychoanalysis. Sullivan extended Freud's therap