Description
Book SynopsisThis book provides a clear, thorough, and accessible introduction to the work of Antonino Ferro and draws on the clinical vignettes that punctuate his writings to show how Ferro has built on Bionâs revolutionary achievements to develop a distinctive, game-changing version of field theory in psychoanalysis.
The book clarifies the phenomenological insight that the analyst and the patient together generate an ever-evolving, intersubjective field. Rather than the supposed psychology of the individual, it is this populous and multidimensional field, a co-created âin-betweenâ rich in characters and stories, that is to be explored and elaborated. The primary points of access to this new âmultiverseâ are dream, reverie, metaphor, and imagination. A radical Negative Capability is called for, not least to help dissolve co-constructed âbastionsâ obstructing the fieldâs expansion. The book sketches out the Italian and international context in which Ferro developed his thinking and address
