Sara Boffito
Biographic Data
| ID | 4055224 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Boffito |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Boffito |
| SIGNATURE | BOFFITO S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Duchamp, Sadomasochism, and the Psychoanalytic Field
Some patients tediously describe depictions of their sexual perversions. These can bring the analyst to feel intense boredom and frustration. This "almost unavoidable monotony" can be interpreted in various ways. It can be seen as an expression of the patient's compulsion to repeat, whether one considers it a product of the death drive, or the need to give meaning to the traumatic experience that caused the perversion itself. On the other hand, i…
In Nina Coltart's Garden
Taking off from Nina Coltart's declaration that "in an ideal world, all psychotherapists would have a garden," this paper explores some of the main concepts in Coltart's work, such as vocation, giftedness, faith, love, and attention. All these concepts center on the idea that psychoanalysis is a mysterious process. The author delineates the connections between Coltart's thought and that of Wilfred Bion, as well as its resonance with a number of o…
Mind Works
Reviewed by: Mind Works: Technique and Creativity in Psychoanalysis Sara Boffito Translated by Andrew Ellis Antonino Ferro. Mind Works: Technique and Creativity in Psychoanalysis. Trans. Philip Slotkin. London: Routledge, 2009. xiii + 225 pp. $39.95 (pb). The title of this book1 by Antonino Ferro, the fifth to be translated into English and published by Routledge, seems to me to encapsulate neatly the essence of what the author believes is going …
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Mind Works
Reviewed by: Mind Works: Technique and Creativity in Psychoanalysis Sara Boffito Translated by Andrew Ellis Antonino Ferro. Mind Works: Technique and Creativity in Psychoanalysis. Trans. Philip Slotkin. London: Routledge, 2009. xiii + 225 pp. $39.95 (pb). The title of this book1 by Antonino Ferro, the fifth to be translated into English and published by Routledge, seems to me to encapsulate neatly the essence of what the author believes is going …
In Nina Coltart's Garden
Taking off from Nina Coltart's declaration that "in an ideal world, all psychotherapists would have a garden," this paper explores some of the main concepts in Coltart's work, such as vocation, giftedness, faith, love, and attention. All these concepts center on the idea that psychoanalysis is a mysterious process. The author delineates the connections between Coltart's thought and that of Wilfred Bion, as well as its resonance with a number of o…
Duchamp, Sadomasochism, and the Psychoanalytic Field
Some patients tediously describe depictions of their sexual perversions. These can bring the analyst to feel intense boredom and frustration. This "almost unavoidable monotony" can be interpreted in various ways. It can be seen as an expression of the patient's compulsion to repeat, whether one considers it a product of the death drive, or the need to give meaning to the traumatic experience that caused the perversion itself. On the other hand, i…
Philosophy (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy (2 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work)