The third model of the contemporary psychoanalytic field theory
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theory, psychoanalytic field, psychoanalyst, intervention, phantasy, unconscious, history of psychoanalysis, american schoolAbstract
This paper describes the historical and clinical context for the development of a family of concepts in the psychoanalytic field theory which has been developed since the middle of the twentieth century in South America, North America and Europe. Three different forms of the field theory are mentioned, one for each continent. The paper suggests that the form of the theory we find in North America consists of the core of what is common to the interpersonal, intersubjective, relational and motivational systems, which have developed primarily in the United States. The field theories developed by Madeleine and Willy Baranger, and by
Antonino Ferro are briefly described. The paper proceeds to describe the third model of the psychoanalytic field theory. The three models are compared and the author extracts a central heuristic clinical principle for each one of the models. Similarities and differences among the three models are explored.
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