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“Identification and identity”, published in 1969, is representative of the work of Alcyon Bahía. In this paper, Bahía, starting from Freud’s ideas and based on significant clinical material, attempts to integrate classic psychoanalytical concepts with authors such as Hartmann, Klein, Winnicott and Bion.
“Identification and identity” is part of a collection of works in which Bahía develops contributions made by authors of his time. It is preceded by “Notes on the interactions of projective and introjective mechanisms in the analytical process”.
Bahía was born in 1911; his father was a poet and a journalist and his mother was an accomplished pianist. Bahía was brought up and spent his childhood in a culturally sophisticated family environment where he developed his scientific curiosity and creativity, which he would later on apply to psychoanalysis.
He graduated in medicine at the National University (of Rio de Janeiro) in 1936. He trained as a psychiatrist and from the beginning showed interest in psychoanalysis. He joined other colleagues who were already reading psychoanalytic literature, and with a few members of this group, he decided to go to Buenos Aires in search of personal analysis and training at the then-new Argentine Psychoanalytic Association (APA).
He underwent training analysis with Dr. Celes Cárcamo, an Argentine trained at the Paris Institute. Alcyon became a member of APA in 1952 and, back in Rio, was one of the 14 founders of the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of Rio de Janeiro in 1959.