Abstracts

PANEPUCCI, ANNA (ed.). Psicoanalisi e identità di genere. [Psychoanalysis and gender identity]. Bari:  La Terza, 1995.

If, in Adornos’ words ‘identity is the original form of ideology’, the crisis of patriarchal ideology implies the transformation of ‘his’ principle of reality, i.e. of his representation of the world and of man, of the relationship between individuals and of systems of ideas, values and behaviours but, above all, the redefinition of identity and of those theories of psychosexual development which sustain those ‘definite’ identities.

In similar fashion, psychoanalytical research is in crisis, as if through a lack of new metaphors — that is new theoretical concepts — able to draw on the deep vital motives of being, on the secret movement of the age, orientating the self-realization of the individual.

In the present dislocation of established social orders as much as of individual psychic systems, male and female analysts, both Freudian and Jungian, attempt through theoretical and clinical contributions to elaborate new conceptualizations concerning gender identity and the relation between genders in the light of difference.

Articles and papers

CAUTAERTS, MICHEL. ‘Je t'aime, séparons nous: le couple, ses ombres, ses racines archétypiques’. [I love you, let's separate: shadows of the couple, archetypal roots and analytical work.] Proceedings of the 13th International Congress for Analytical Psychology, August 1995. 18 pages, 6 illustrations. Bibliography and table of contents.

There are many instances where our analytical work and the actual relationship interact and present specific shadows. We are in fact concerned with four couples: the parental couple, the ‘life couple’, the internal couple — i.e. the relationship between the ego and the anima/us, which only gradually becomes conscious — and the transferential couple.

The process of the couple's development has left aside the courtship shadows, the typological, projective and genealogical shadows, and