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The 19th International Neuropsychoanalysis Congress, Mexico City, August 31-September 2, 2018: “Repression and Defense”
Many attendees noted the extent of truly neuropsychoanalytic work at this congress. In the early years of our Society, presentations were almost exclusively on one side of the fence or the other – either pure neuroscience or pure psychoanalysis. As the abstracts published here demonstrate, this is no longer the case. The majority of presentations, both keynote talks and the symposia and parallel research sessions, included both neurobiology and psychodynamic concepts, in generative and exciting ways. Clinical material was increasingly present, providing nuanced illustrations of the metapsychology being debated.
Many presentations related directly to the theme of the congress – clinical and experimental work on memory, forgetting, inhibition, disinhibition, and more. In addition, presenters discussed other topics, including addiction, attachment, character disorders, and the use of dreams in working with patients with brain injury. We trust the dialogues will continue through the coming year, and hope some of the finished work will be published in these pages.
Consider submitting proposals for our next congress in Brussels, July 18–20, 2019, when we will address the topic “Satisfaction at Last: Neuropsychoanalysis of Sex, Drive, and Enjoyment.” Stay tuned for details!
Friday, August 31
Plenary symposium: Conceptual and experimental approaches to repression: a discourse between philosophy, neuroscience and psychoanalysis (Chairs: Gerd Waldhauser and Beate Krickel)
Beate Krickel
Repression: Impulsive removal from consciousness and protective miscategorization
In the first part of my talk, I will provide a list of criteria of adequacy for evaluating models of repression. I will use resources from philosophy of mind and psychoanalysis to develop a model of repression that satisfies these criteria. I will argue that repression can consistently be spelled out in