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The title of this issue of Italy's Rivista di Psicoanali si is “The Notion of the Field,” although its contents are about various subjects. I have selected four papers for discussion here that have a connection with the concept of the field. The first is by Claudio Neri and is specifically about this topic. Two others are by Stefano Bolognini and Vittorio Gallese and are about, respectively, plurality and complexity, and mirror neurons; they are not directly about the concept of the field, but come close to it in speaking about intersubjectivity. The fourth paper, by Giuseppe Civitárese, considers transference interpretation in relation to the theme of narration.
The Enlarged Notion of the Field in Psychoanalysis. By , pp. 103-134.
Neri's article is divided into two sections. The first deals with the notion of the field and other concepts that are close but not coincident with it. The second section develops the idea of the enlarged field.
The first psychoanalytic works on the field were authored by Madeleine and Willy Baranger, beginning in the 1960s, and introduced the concept of the bi-personal field, thereby proposing an expansion of Kleinian psychoanalysis through the contribution of concepts taken from Gestalt psychology and from Merleau-Ponty's “the psychology of man.” The Barangers, starting from the consideration that patient and analyst participate in the same dynamic process, distinguish the individuals involved in the field from the field that they produce and in which they are