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This is the kind of book I would have liked to have read during my studies as a psychologist and while training as a psychoanalyst. As Lustgarten points out in her text:
Throughout the book, the enquiry centres on how to subtly refine the practice of psychoanalysis today, taking into account the contemporary world and its effects on the patients who consult us, and on ourselves. To this end, I propose a perspective that I encounter in Winnicott, which distances itself from the identity dilemma between novel and orthodox approaches in psychoanalysis (22–23).
Thus, the issues reviewed in the book traverse not only different periods of the author’s clinical practice, but also different dimensions of a history of metapsychology and clinical psychoanalysis in Latin America and particularly in Argentina. It could undoubtedly be said that the journey undertaken is not exhaustive, or that it does not meet the requirements of an encyclopaedic study. However, in the opinion of the author of this review, this is precisely the value of the path of enquiry in the text under review.
The title unfolds in all its depth on this point. The words “experience” and “body” are pivotal to the entire work, not only proposing an embodied psychoanalysis, made incarnate through its practice, but also taking Winnicott as a starting point for a psychoanalysis that is centred on the conditions that have shaped the subject’s experience, both in the contemporary world and during a session. This challenge questions the reader both in their own clinical experience and in the metapsychological interest aroused by the psychoanalytic session described in its intimacy – all this from a conceptual review based on the central axes within any of the various theoretical psychoanalytic scenarios.
The text is initially organized around angst and its functioning both in the session and in the theories of Freud, Lacan and Winnicott. A second section begins with the presence and reinstatement of the body within the