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This is a rich, intelligent and original text that offers the reader a striking profusion of new thinking and reflection, and a recontextualizing of concepts, and in which a number of interrelated issues are developed over the course of its three hundred plus pages.
The author, a true enquiring psychoanalyst, communicates her ideas and discoveries of the last few years with enthusiasm and scientific rigour. The book, published in 1999, comprises a series of twenty-one articles written between 1988 and 1997. Many of these works have already been presented at different forums or published in various journals, and the author has updated and revised all of them for this book.
I was struck by Myrta Casas's readiness to allow herself to draw on the ideas of other thinkers, whose rich contributions she links with classical psychoanalytic concepts. With exceptional permeability, she introduces concepts and ideas from other fields that enrich her work and lead her to the challenge of seeking links with ideas originating in other disciplines. That she succeeds in this fruitful task without losing coherency between theory and clinical practice can be seen through the various clinical vignettes of psychoanalysis with children and adults presented in the different chapters of the book. My own surprise comes from observing how a psychoanalytic author allows herself to walk a path of this kind with such evident freedom, and how she impregnates her whole book with this spirit