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The time in which there was such a thing as the Other is over.
The Other as secret, the Other as a temptation, the Other as eros, the Other as desire, the Other as hell and the Other as pain disappear.”
In Freud and the Changing World: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and its Troubles, Luca Nicoli continues his conversations with contemporary Italian psychoanalysts. After interviewing Antonino Ferro in 2017, Nicoli now dialogues with Stefano Bolognini about contemporary subjectivity and its implications for psychoanalytic theory and technique. The dialogue between the two interlocutors is engaging, lively, dense, and the conversational field gets expanded progressively by the exploration and exchange of ideas, free associations, clinical examples, and personal experiences. The list of themes discussed between the authors is extensive: the analytic relationship, contemporary social changes, empathy, the preconscious, narcissism, the relationship between mind and body, the interpsychic, analytic technique, the vicissitudes of online analysis, and analytic training, etc. References from popular culture such as football/soccer, gastronomy, and cinema are used to better illustrate the arguments being presented, helping to engage readers in the dialogue.
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The book is organized into eleven chapters, each covering a specific topic. Since the book is aimed not only at those interested in psychoanalysis but also in psychology and psychotherapy in general, the language is clear and jargon free. At the end of the book, there is a glossary with the psychoanalytic terms used throughout the text defined in a brief and accessible way for those who are not very familiar with psychoanalytic concepts.
In the first chapters, Bolognini and Nicoli conduct a diagnostic evaluation of the contemporary psyche with its new ways of relating with oneself and others. One of the main argume