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Antonio Imbasciati is not only a training analyst belonging to the Italian Psychoanalytical Society but also a university lecturer in clinical psychology. His teaching functions have contributed to his aim of integrating psychoanalysis with the other psychological sciences and of rediscovering (by reformulation) what Wallerstein describes as the common ground, which, it appears, can no longer be provided by traditional drive theory.
In this book, the author puts together and develops subjects previously tackled in a large number of contributions dating back to 1981, the year of publication of Il protomentale. He discusses the criticisms directed at Freud's energy-and drive-based theory and his metapsychology by various thinkers, such as Meltzer, George Klein, Eagle, Schafer and Peterfreund.
Noting that modern epistemology distinguishes between ‘understanding’-based knowledge (‘how’) and ‘explanation’-based knowledge (‘why’), Imbasciati has no intention of forgoing the investigation of the ‘why’ of mental processes,