Reply to Goldberg and Steinberg

Giuseppe Civitarese, M.D., Ph.D., is a training and supervising analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI), and a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) and of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). He lives and is in private practice in Pavia, Italy. He is the past-editor of the Rivista di Psicoanalisi, the official journal of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society. He has published several books, which include: The Intimate Room: Theory and Technique of the Analytic Field (London 2010); The Violence of Emotions: Bion and Post-Bionian Psychoanalysis (London 2012); Losing Your Head: Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict and Psychoanalytic Criticism (Lanham 2015); Truth and the Unconscious (London 2016); Sublime Subjects: Aesthetic Experience and Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis (London 2018); An Apocriphal Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (London 2019).
Correspondence should be addressed to Giuseppe Civitarese, M.D., Ph.D., 8, Via Teodorico, 27100 Pavia, Italy. E-mail: