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Out of the author's critical essays written during the decade 1977–1988, the present volume gathers together those whose subject is particularly pertinent to the comparison between psychoanalysis-philosophy and psychoanalysis-epistemology of sciences. With this work, Enzo Morpurgo continues the collection he began with the two Readers edited previously: La psicoanalisi tra scienza e filosofia, Torino: Loescher, 1981 (Psychoanalysis Between Science and Philosophy) and Psicoanalisi e narrazione, Ancona: Il lavoro editoriale, 1987 (Psychoanalysis and Narration). The meeting point and comparison between psychoanalytical culture and philosophical culture, which Morpurgo has been keenly investigating for years, distinguish him from other Italian psychoanalysts.
Almost all the essays included in this volume have been previously presented; some have already been published as papers presented at congresses, others have appeared in journals, while others have been read during public discussions.
The essays are divided into three different sections which develop homogenous themes. Within each section a chronological order has been followed.
Section One and Section Two deal mainly with the following themes: (1) The 'deconstruction of the subject' and the affinities and differences between Freudian deconstruction of the ego and the dissolution of the Idealist subject in the field of philosophy. (2) Changes in the subject (namely the analysand) in relation to social change in general.
In these two sections, Morpurgo's discourse is related to the writings of those philosophers belonging to the Frankfurt School. It is related, on the one hand, to their interpretation of Hegelian dialectics and, on the other, to their interpretation of Freudian thought.
In Section Three, apart from other themes, there is the theme concerning the 'gap between thought and language' in psychoanalysis and the comparison between the peculiarity of 'written' speech and the peculiarity of 'spoken speec