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Fundamentos de Psicoanálisis. Un abordaje actual e integrador (Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis. A Current and Integrative Approach) is a book that, as its name suggests, addresses the fundamentals of our discipline from a current and integrative approach. From a contemporary point of view, this permits us to cover its fundamental theoretical and clinical contributions in their broadest spectrum. At the same time, this path goes hand-in-hand with another that revisits the foundations of science and culture as a whole.
This enormous and complex task is undertaken by the author, Rafael Cruz Roche, who began to develop his extensive body of research many years ago. It is presented through the 16 chapters that make up this work, divided into four parts (“An Epistemological Essay”, “Metapsychology”, “Drives” and “Methodology”). This structure leads me to an evocation of the four movements of a great symphony that revolve around the foundations of science and culture. The author establishes a permanent dialogue with these, which allows us to glimpse the articulations that are woven between psychoanalysis and the different disciplines.
Starting from this global vision, Cruz Roche invites the reader to set out on an intra-, inter- and transdisciplinary journey, guided by the paradigm of complexity and complex thinking. From among the diverse contributions of theory, the author highlights Edgar Morin’s conception of complex thought, organised along three axes. These are: the dialogical principle (consisting of the simultaneous concurrence of concordant, complementary and contradictory aspects), the hologrammatic principle (through which totality appears within the component elements) and the recursive principle (through which the later-evolved systems influence the organisation of the earlier systems of complexity).
Employing a model of integration, which accounts for the appearance and reappearance of important organisational patterns in diverse strata of reality, the author sit