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An early state is primitive when it occurs in the absence of an object that contains it, dreams it, thinks it.
Is it possible to give a picture of the state of the art of Italian psychoanalysis, with its irreducible complexity, in just a few pages? That is the ambitious goal we have set for ourselves in commenting on the 17th National Congress of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society (SPI), titled “The Origin of Psychic Experience: Becoming Subjects,” that took place May 22-25, 2014, in Milan.
This report is undoubtedly incomplete, especially since our viewpoint is that of three persons-becoming-analysts, each dealing with a different stage of training and belonging to a different scientific center.