Pulsiones y desarrollo cultural [Drives and cultural development]*

Drives and Cultural Development, by Yako Román Adissi, with a prologue by Víctor Korman, is divided into ten chapters: I Introduction; II The Oedipus Complex, a Driver of Human Development; III What is a Representation, and How Does It Materialize?; IV Freud and Culture; V Why Sexual Morality and not Sexual Ethics?; VI Thinking with Freud; VII How is Thought Generated?; VII Violence: A Manifestation of Perversion; IX Transference Neurosis: One of the Vicissitudes of the Death Drive; and X Narcissus and Oedipus in the Psychosexual Evolution of the Libido.

We recognize in this valuable text a very thorough reading of Freudian and post-Freudian works, as well as numerous observations drawn from other scientific and literary sources. Along with Laplanche, Pontalis, Ferenczi, Piaget, Klein, and Lacan, many Argentine psychoanalysts have a strong presence: Garma, Cesio, Abuchaem, Racker, Zukerfeld, Hagelin, Braier, Dio Bleichmar, Nasio, and Faimberg. We also find a great number of renowned literary authors and philosophers. With his vast knowledge, Adissi takes us through themes developed by Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Anatole France, Arthur Rimbaud, Fernando Savater, Séneca,

J.W. von Goethe, Octavio Paz, Luigi Pirandello, Nietzsche, Aristotle, Pericles, Ovid, Sophocles, Schopenhauer, Heidegger, and Daniel Defoe, among others.

I share with the author a passion for psychoanalysis and literature. His readings of the classics are an essential contribution to our field, for the quality of these authors' writing has left a mark, and human life circulates through these books. By learning from a great number of literary and scientific works from different disciplines, we will acquire more representational elements that may come to our aid when dealing with clinical material. We will gain access to the unconscious with the greatest and best poss