Franco De Masi
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3846601 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Franco De Masi |
| NOMBRES | Franco |
| APELLIDO | De Masi |
| FIRMA | DE MASI F |
| AFILIACIONES | Istituto Ramazzini |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
On Freud’s “Neurosis and Psychosis” and “The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psychosis”
Sensoriality and thought. In development and in psychopathology
This paper addresses certain aspects of the role of sensoriality in psychic functioning and, in particular, seeks to compare child sensoriality - a natural component of development that precedes the ability to think - and the perceptual-sensorial distortion that occurs in certain pathological conditions. In the course of severe psychic disorders such as psychosis, and in other respects in post-traumatic conditions, the mind is invaded by sensoria…
The Ego and the Id
In this note I have limited myself to describing some convergent and divergent developments arising from the innovative concepts present in The Ego and the Id. It could be argued that a part of the psychoanalytic movement wished to emphasize the function of the Ego (Anna Freud, Hartmann, Rapaport), while another part (Melanie Klein and her followers) delved into the dynamics of the Superego and the Id in primitive and pathological states of mind.…
Perversion as a Sexualized Withdrawal
In this article I distinguish sexual perversion from other forms of pathological interpersonal relationships, as I did in my book The Sadomasochistic Perversion: The Entity and the Theories . In fact, it is one thing to talk about sadomasochistic interpersonal dynamics, and another to distinguish the character of sexual perversion. I will start from Freud's work "A Child is Being Beaten," which examines seven cases of children who all have masoch…
Beyond the Dynamic Unconscious
After some reflections on the intuitive unconscious that scientists employ, the focus of the first part of this article concerns the analytic method, based on associations and symbolic interpretations, as formulated by Freud and his most important followers. I see this as a valid method when used with patients we can ascribe to the neurotic area, but not with the more seriously ill, non-neurotic patients. This distinction does not particularly co…
The perverse and the psychotic superego
In this contribution I will sustain that, given its origin, meaning and function, the superego is readily susceptible to the pathological distortions observed in clinical psychoanalytic work. After all, while we as psychoanalysts are unacquainted with the "normal" superego, we are accustomed to seeing patients with either an abnormal sense of guilt or a seeming absence of guilt. However, a distinction must first be drawn between the primitive sup…
Psychosis and analytic therapy
In this paper I try to summarise the contributions of some analysts who have been engaged in the therapy of psychotic patients. I have divided them into two categories: one following intuitive-non-systematic models, and the other theoretical-systematic models. My hypothesis is that the psychotic process is formed and nourished in childhood withdrawal, where the child constructs an alternative world that is dissociated from psychic reality. The pa…
A hypothesis on the enigmatic nature of psychosis
This contribution deals with the difficulty in understanding the specific nature of psychotic functioning. These patients distort their perceptive apparatus to create dissociated sensorial worlds in which to live. They cannot be treated with the analytic technique employed with neurotic patients because they are unable to use the intuitive functions that enable psychic reality to be recognized. My hypothesis is that their mind functions as a sens…
Essential elements of the work of a supervisor
Some Paths Towards Psychotic Alienation
La mémoire et la réparation, la psychanalyse et la question de la mort
Questionner sa propre mort est se confronter aux limites de la pensée. Or, si la mort n'est pas pensable, qu'entendons-nous par « peur de la mort » ? L'hypothèse de ce travail est que la mort s'inscrit dans le monde interne de chacun sous la forme d'un désastre - d'un état de désintégration de l'identité personnelle - difficilement concevable ou tolérable. À mesure que nous avançons en âge, l'intégration continue du passé, qui prend sens dès lors…
Is the concept of the death drive still useful in the clinical field
Delusion and bi‐ocular vision
The delusional experience is the result of a grave disjunction in the psyche whose outcome is not readily predictable. Examination of the specific mode of disjunction may help us understand the nature and radical character of delusion. I will present the therapy of a psychotic patient who after many years of analysis and progresses in his life continues to show delusional episodes although limited and contained. In his case, the two visions, one …
Hallucinations in the psychotic state
In this contribution, which takes account of important findings in neuroscientific as well as psychoanalytic research, the authors explore the meaning of the deep-going distortions of psychic functioning occurring in hallucinatory phenomena. Neuroscientific studies have established that hallucinations distort the sense of reality owing to a complex alteration in the balance between top-down and bottom-up brain circuits. The present authors postul…
Working with Difficult Patients
The Erotic Transference
The erotic transference can be seen as the Janus face of clinical work in psychoanalysis: it may either arise out of the positive emotions necessary for the building of new shared realities, or be fueled by falsified and distorted constructions. In the former case, the erotic transference expresses the capacity to anticipate, or “dream,” the emotional relationship with the object—which is why Freud valued its transformative aspect as one of the “…
Vulnerability to psychosis
The paedophile and his inner world
The main feature of the treatment of the paedophile is the distance that separates the analyst from the patient. However hard the analyst tries to understand his patient, the paedophile's world appears to him, especially at the beginning of the treatment, incomprehensible, disheartening and distant. This paper describes the analytic therapy of a paedophile patient. The psychopathological organization that dominates his inner world originates from…
Psychotic withdrawal and the overthrow of psychic reality
The author attempts to distinguish between the world of fantasy and the imagination (which fuels our capacity to 'dream') from a withdrawal into fantasy. In this withdrawal, the foundations of which are laid in childhood, a dissociation from psychic reality starts and from it the delusional world arises and constitutes the adult illness. During therapies of adult patients who have experienced a psychotic state, it is often possible to reconstruct…
The psychodynamic of panic attacks
This article tries to explain, in the light of some neuroscientific and psychoanalytical considerations, the repetitive pattern of panic attacks. Freud considered the panic attack as an ‘actual neurosis’ not involving any conflictual process. Recent neuroscientific findings indicate that psychosomatic reactions, set off by a danger situation, depend on the primitive circuit of fear (including the amygdala) characterised by its speed, but lack acc…
On the nature of intuitive and delusional thought
The author tries to differentiate intuitive imagination from delusional imagination and hypothesises that psychosis alters the system of intuitive thinking, which consequently cannot develop in a dynamic and selective way. Scholars of different disciplines, far removed from psychoanalysis, such as Einstein, Hadamard or Poincaré, believe that intuitive thinking works in the unconscious by means of hidden processes, which permit a creative meeting …
The sadomasochistic preversion
The Meaning of Dreams in the Psychotic State
The authors consider that the Freudian theory of dreams is not directly applicable to psychotic and borderline patients with their constantly varying states of mental integration. Because these patients' dreams lack associations, the usual psychoanalytic approach cannot be used to ascertain their meaning. After reviewing the literature on the specific quality of dreams in the psychotic state, the authors point out that such dreams have nothing to…
Herbert Rosenfeld at Work
The Meaning of Dreams in the Psychotic State
The authors consider that the Freudian theory of dreams is not directly applicable to psychotic and borderline patients with their constantly varying states of mental integration. Because these patients' dreams lack associations, the usual psychoanalytic approach cannot be used to ascertain their meaning. After reviewing the literature on the specific quality of dreams in the psychotic state, the authors point out that such dreams have nothing to…
Delusion and bi‐ocular vision
The delusional experience is the result of a grave disjunction in the psyche whose outcome is not readily predictable. Examination of the specific mode of disjunction may help us understand the nature and radical character of delusion. I will present the therapy of a psychotic patient who after many years of analysis and progresses in his life continues to show delusional episodes although limited and contained. In his case, the two visions, one …
Hallucinations in the psychotic state
In this contribution, which takes account of important findings in neuroscientific as well as psychoanalytic research, the authors explore the meaning of the deep-going distortions of psychic functioning occurring in hallucinatory phenomena. Neuroscientific studies have established that hallucinations distort the sense of reality owing to a complex alteration in the balance between top-down and bottom-up brain circuits. The present authors postul…
The paedophile and his inner world
The main feature of the treatment of the paedophile is the distance that separates the analyst from the patient. However hard the analyst tries to understand his patient, the paedophile's world appears to him, especially at the beginning of the treatment, incomprehensible, disheartening and distant. This paper describes the analytic therapy of a paedophile patient. The psychopathological organization that dominates his inner world originates from…
On the nature of intuitive and delusional thought
The author tries to differentiate intuitive imagination from delusional imagination and hypothesises that psychosis alters the system of intuitive thinking, which consequently cannot develop in a dynamic and selective way. Scholars of different disciplines, far removed from psychoanalysis, such as Einstein, Hadamard or Poincaré, believe that intuitive thinking works in the unconscious by means of hidden processes, which permit a creative meeting …
Psychotic withdrawal and the overthrow of psychic reality
The author attempts to distinguish between the world of fantasy and the imagination (which fuels our capacity to 'dream') from a withdrawal into fantasy. In this withdrawal, the foundations of which are laid in childhood, a dissociation from psychic reality starts and from it the delusional world arises and constitutes the adult illness. During therapies of adult patients who have experienced a psychotic state, it is often possible to reconstruct…
Is the concept of the death drive still useful in the clinical field
The psychodynamic of panic attacks
This article tries to explain, in the light of some neuroscientific and psychoanalytical considerations, the repetitive pattern of panic attacks. Freud considered the panic attack as an ‘actual neurosis’ not involving any conflictual process. Recent neuroscientific findings indicate that psychosomatic reactions, set off by a danger situation, depend on the primitive circuit of fear (including the amygdala) characterised by its speed, but lack acc…
The Meaning of Dreams in the Psychotic State
The authors consider that the Freudian theory of dreams is not directly applicable to psychotic and borderline patients with their constantly varying states of mental integration. Because these patients' dreams lack associations, the usual psychoanalytic approach cannot be used to ascertain their meaning. After reviewing the literature on the specific quality of dreams in the psychotic state, the authors point out that such dreams have nothing to…
Herbert Rosenfeld at Work
On the nature of intuitive and delusional thought
The author tries to differentiate intuitive imagination from delusional imagination and hypothesises that psychosis alters the system of intuitive thinking, which consequently cannot develop in a dynamic and selective way. Scholars of different disciplines, far removed from psychoanalysis, such as Einstein, Hadamard or Poincaré, believe that intuitive thinking works in the unconscious by means of hidden processes, which permit a creative meeting …
The sadomasochistic preversion
The psychodynamic of panic attacks
This article tries to explain, in the light of some neuroscientific and psychoanalytical considerations, the repetitive pattern of panic attacks. Freud considered the panic attack as an ‘actual neurosis’ not involving any conflictual process. Recent neuroscientific findings indicate that psychosomatic reactions, set off by a danger situation, depend on the primitive circuit of fear (including the amygdala) characterised by its speed, but lack acc…
Psychotic withdrawal and the overthrow of psychic reality
The author attempts to distinguish between the world of fantasy and the imagination (which fuels our capacity to 'dream') from a withdrawal into fantasy. In this withdrawal, the foundations of which are laid in childhood, a dissociation from psychic reality starts and from it the delusional world arises and constitutes the adult illness. During therapies of adult patients who have experienced a psychotic state, it is often possible to reconstruct…
The paedophile and his inner world
The main feature of the treatment of the paedophile is the distance that separates the analyst from the patient. However hard the analyst tries to understand his patient, the paedophile's world appears to him, especially at the beginning of the treatment, incomprehensible, disheartening and distant. This paper describes the analytic therapy of a paedophile patient. The psychopathological organization that dominates his inner world originates from…
Vulnerability to psychosis
The Erotic Transference
The erotic transference can be seen as the Janus face of clinical work in psychoanalysis: it may either arise out of the positive emotions necessary for the building of new shared realities, or be fueled by falsified and distorted constructions. In the former case, the erotic transference expresses the capacity to anticipate, or “dream,” the emotional relationship with the object—which is why Freud valued its transformative aspect as one of the “…
Is the concept of the death drive still useful in the clinical field
Delusion and bi‐ocular vision
The delusional experience is the result of a grave disjunction in the psyche whose outcome is not readily predictable. Examination of the specific mode of disjunction may help us understand the nature and radical character of delusion. I will present the therapy of a psychotic patient who after many years of analysis and progresses in his life continues to show delusional episodes although limited and contained. In his case, the two visions, one …
Hallucinations in the psychotic state
In this contribution, which takes account of important findings in neuroscientific as well as psychoanalytic research, the authors explore the meaning of the deep-going distortions of psychic functioning occurring in hallucinatory phenomena. Neuroscientific studies have established that hallucinations distort the sense of reality owing to a complex alteration in the balance between top-down and bottom-up brain circuits. The present authors postul…
Working with Difficult Patients
Some Paths Towards Psychotic Alienation
La mémoire et la réparation, la psychanalyse et la question de la mort
Questionner sa propre mort est se confronter aux limites de la pensée. Or, si la mort n'est pas pensable, qu'entendons-nous par « peur de la mort » ? L'hypothèse de ce travail est que la mort s'inscrit dans le monde interne de chacun sous la forme d'un désastre - d'un état de désintégration de l'identité personnelle - difficilement concevable ou tolérable. À mesure que nous avançons en âge, l'intégration continue du passé, qui prend sens dès lors…
Essential elements of the work of a supervisor
The perverse and the psychotic superego
In this contribution I will sustain that, given its origin, meaning and function, the superego is readily susceptible to the pathological distortions observed in clinical psychoanalytic work. After all, while we as psychoanalysts are unacquainted with the "normal" superego, we are accustomed to seeing patients with either an abnormal sense of guilt or a seeming absence of guilt. However, a distinction must first be drawn between the primitive sup…
Psychosis and analytic therapy
In this paper I try to summarise the contributions of some analysts who have been engaged in the therapy of psychotic patients. I have divided them into two categories: one following intuitive-non-systematic models, and the other theoretical-systematic models. My hypothesis is that the psychotic process is formed and nourished in childhood withdrawal, where the child constructs an alternative world that is dissociated from psychic reality. The pa…
A hypothesis on the enigmatic nature of psychosis
This contribution deals with the difficulty in understanding the specific nature of psychotic functioning. These patients distort their perceptive apparatus to create dissociated sensorial worlds in which to live. They cannot be treated with the analytic technique employed with neurotic patients because they are unable to use the intuitive functions that enable psychic reality to be recognized. My hypothesis is that their mind functions as a sens…
The Ego and the Id
In this note I have limited myself to describing some convergent and divergent developments arising from the innovative concepts present in The Ego and the Id. It could be argued that a part of the psychoanalytic movement wished to emphasize the function of the Ego (Anna Freud, Hartmann, Rapaport), while another part (Melanie Klein and her followers) delved into the dynamics of the Superego and the Id in primitive and pathological states of mind.…
Perversion as a Sexualized Withdrawal
In this article I distinguish sexual perversion from other forms of pathological interpersonal relationships, as I did in my book The Sadomasochistic Perversion: The Entity and the Theories . In fact, it is one thing to talk about sadomasochistic interpersonal dynamics, and another to distinguish the character of sexual perversion. I will start from Freud's work "A Child is Being Beaten," which examines seven cases of children who all have masoch…
Beyond the Dynamic Unconscious
After some reflections on the intuitive unconscious that scientists employ, the focus of the first part of this article concerns the analytic method, based on associations and symbolic interpretations, as formulated by Freud and his most important followers. I see this as a valid method when used with patients we can ascribe to the neurotic area, but not with the more seriously ill, non-neurotic patients. This distinction does not particularly co…
On Freud’s “Neurosis and Psychosis” and “The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psychosis”
Sensoriality and thought. In development and in psychopathology
This paper addresses certain aspects of the role of sensoriality in psychic functioning and, in particular, seeks to compare child sensoriality - a natural component of development that precedes the ability to think - and the perceptual-sensorial distortion that occurs in certain pathological conditions. In the course of severe psychic disorders such as psychosis, and in other respects in post-traumatic conditions, the mind is invaded by sensoria…
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