
Contributions for a theory of the constitution of the cruel superego - Marion Minerbo
In this episode dr. Marion Minerbo brings us an original hypothesis about the constitution of the cruel superego – the one that, according to Freud, plants its roots in the id and is pure culture of t...
25 Aug 202223min

Psychoanalysis as Politics: Aspiring to Think In the Age of Anti-Thinking - Ian S. Miller
This podcast discusses the political nature of psychoanalytic audacity in our era of fake news and disinformation. Today, gullible populations accustom themselves to the lies and misrepresentations of...
30 Juni 202215min

Ludovica Grassi - Music, Silence and Psychoanalysis
A few musical passages serve as examples of how music is a basic component of psychic life and unconscious functioning since the earliest sensorial experiences in utero. Both music and the psyche wor...
16 Maj 202224min

Christophe Dejours - Sublimation between Suffering and Pleasure at Work
In this episode "Sublimation between suffering and pleasure at work", Christophe Dejours develops his theses on the psychodynamics of work, which he has particularly deepened. He examines the work cli...
4 Maj 202249min

Werner Bohleber: Trauma - Catastrophic Reality and the Overwhelmed Psyche.
"Guernica" by Picasso at MOMA, NYC. Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer. Courtesy Library of Congress. What happens when our basic trust in the world is challenged, and the social dimension of reality is d...
4 Apr 202231min

Nancy Chodorow - “Thoughts for the times on women and men”.
Thoreau's cove, Lake Walden, Concord, Mass., Detroit Publishing Co., publisher, between 1900 and 1910. Courtesy Library of Congress. Nancy Chodorow is Training and Supervising Analyst Emerita, Boston ...
15 Mars 202215min

Rui Aragão Oliveira - Why pleasure?
Flowers and Fruit in a Chinese Bowl, c. 1645, Juan de Zurbarán. Courtesy Art Institute Chicago. What role does Pleasure occupy in human development? What influence did this theme have on the developme...
13 Feb 202219min

Paulina Zukerman: “Couples and Families: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Money Issues”.
Phantasy knotted around money as a drive derivative organizes unconscious modes of family survival. Social, historical, political, and economic considerations also influence the conscious and unconsci...
5 Dec 202121min


















