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Unfolding margins by Paolo Fabozzi is a collection of essays by the author published or discussed in scientific settings over the last decade. The breadth of topics covered, not always connected by a precise conceptual thread, makes it impossible to describe its contents in detail: as an introduction to its structure, one might begin by saying that the first five papers set out from a reflection around, or “nei dintorni di,”1 as the title states, Donald Winnicott’s thought and its origins and intersections with Kleinian and post-Kleinian thought; the latter four, on the other hand, address more intricately clinical-theoretical issues such as the genesis of interpretation, the clinical manifestations of the unrepressed unconscious, and what Fabozzi defines as “pervasive countertransference.”
From the very first pages, the author’s intention is to move from the core of psychoanalytic experience in order to explore its boundaries, where theory meets clinical experience and where analytic reflection is contaminated by the complexity of the real as it emerges. We might say that this book takes the form of a theoretical-clinical contribution which, strongly rooted in Winnicott’s thought (though not only Winnicott’s, as the author repeatedly emphasises), aims to enter the sphere of contemporary psychoanalytic reflection that explores the most impervious territories of psychic experience. In bringing together a collection of essays and reflections that have marked pivotal points in his scientific production, one grasps the author’s desire to place the most delicate and problematic conceptual nodes back at the heart of psychoanalytic investigation, starting from clinical experience. Fabozzi, an analyst of extensive experience, declares the aim of drawing psychoanalysis outside its usual theoretical confines, to probe its margins: those spaces, often blurred, in which theory encounters its limits and clinical practice begs new questions. The author’s ambition appears not only