The author considers the body as the symbolic activity's starting point of the mind: a perspective through which body recognition is a pre- requisite for the formation of affects and its placement in a horizon of consciousness and signification. Some hypothesis by A. B. Ferrari and I. Matte Blanco are presented and discussed as important contributions capable to offer new theoretical and clinical instruments in psychoanalytical practice. The "sensation-feeling" in Matte Blanco and the "significant correspondences" of the mind-body network in Ferrari are the crucial points in which the analysand can learn to feel and to think.

It is proposed in this work to follow two paths which intertwine whilst preserving their own outlines: one refers to the myth in its function in the organization of the psyche; the other considers the myth as a model for the mental function and human behavior. The essay's main argument concerns the eternal presence of the myth in the human mind. Such a presence can only be transformed during the developmental process of the individual and of the group. We will refer to the Greek myths in order to support our observations, making distinctions in the way that they appear either in the epic or in the tragedy. Psychoanalysis will play its part as a method by which the individual can develop self- consciousness, so that the influence of the mythic thought in the psyche is recognized and used for personal growth.

In this paper, the author attempts to raise questions in order to initiate a dialogue with the reader as to how technological instruments are necessary for the implementation of globalization in contemporary society and in what way they can interfere in the human being's emotional development and growth. Thus, it briefly describes how globalization and technological resources have enabled its effectiveness. The author attempts to describe the changes that occurred in the logic of representation so as to enable the creation of a virtual world and advocates that virtuality is the current historical moment s characteristic. She attempts to show the dangers in mistaking virtual and imaginary instances and outlines the importance of Psychoanalysis for the current vicissitudes of human life.

This paper, the third one into a series on Winnicottian philosophical and psychoanalytical ascendances, aims to accomplish a comparative reading between Hume's skeptical philosophy and Winnicott's psychoanalytical contribution trying to remark some points of influence of empiricist philosophy on psychoanalytical thinking in England. Through the widening study of conceptual and methodological zones of intersection between the works one can make the statement that there is a possible area of epistemic commensurability between the systems of both thinkers and even a continuum into the British history of ideas in the two disciplines of knowledge.

In this article, the author shows how it was possible to identify the introjected models of our Jewish-Christian tradition in the self representations of a woman who was submitted to assisted reproduction proceedings. The unconscious repetition of these social/cultural determinants was manifested in the patient identifications with the partial and impotent object. In this configuration, the child acquires the function of self-object instead of a pulsional one. Then, self disqualification and intense narcissistic pain replaces the work of mourning. Eventually, the analytical process was considered.

The author focuses her attention on nonverbal levels at which the analyst may capture meaning, based on this latter's oniric repertoire of dreams and on the patient's communication during the session.
She shows how a recurrent image in the analyst's mind can synthesize something that is present in the analysand's psychic reality, albeit unconscious. The author also discusses how tactile communication from the analysand, the image of which is especially present to the analyst, can provide valuable understanding for a complex situation of conflict, the meaning of which would be weak if only verbalization were taken into account.
Image and action are both like flashes of selected facts that, when discovered, bring harmony and understanding to a great number of associations, thus fostering learning and growth. It is from the analyst's dis-position to grasp emanations from the schizo-paranoid position that these latter can take on consistency and evolve to the depressive position. For this to happen, however, the analyst must be willing to listen to all "communications", both her own and those of her analysand.

The objective of this article is to develop the idea that beta elements, within the field theory followed by Ferro (1995), can be consciously or unconsciously perceived by the analyst in the analytical field, even not being the target of the patient's projection. That, if the analyst is attentive to what emerges in the field and, from there, seek to distinguish if that element is b to himself/herself, or to the patient. Therefore, the author start from the premise that one same element can be b to one and a to another. This idea seeks to extend Bion's concept about beta elements in regard to their use in the analytical situation.
The theory of beta elements is seen here as complementary to the theory of projective identification and can explain part of the communication between patient and analyst that, in various moments, is misinterpreted as projective identification. The objective was to differentiate that there is an initial b element and a b element that has "personality" (Bion, 1963). These beta elements with personality traits are utilized as content of massive projective identification, when the patient, or the analyst, need to evacuate one over the other, contents felt as 'undesirable' or 'unbearable'.
It is noteworthy that the analyst's beta elements can be taken as projective identifications of the patient and, therefore the analyst would be inverting the flow of projective identifications. It is understood that if he/she identifies himself/herself with beta elements, they can no longer be transformed, and contaminate the field, insomuch as to be a disruptive factor in the analytical field. If, on the other hand, beta elements are transformed, that is, contained and elaborated by the analyst, they become a factor of evolution in the field.
The importance of Bion is pointed out in this paper, from the beginning, having defined beta elements in their relation with the alpha function. The objective here is to approximate the theory of beta elements with the concept of projective identification, the unconscious and counter transference.

The author makes remarks about what constitutes an emotional experience, which enables mental development. The tangential one that embraces from "the mystery" of human nature until the logic of the mind, expressed in the human being s manifest contents. The author considers the interpretation as the tip of the iceberg in the analytical pair meeting. It is enlightened by the precise removal of the blindfold from the emotional quality of its interaction, and while it reveals the patient s moment of being, it expands and integrates his conception of himself. It progressively gives him symbolic acquisition instruments and ways and patterns to apprehend and interact with the internal and external reality, making use of the transferential phenomenon. This process of interminable transformations and the enlargement of the symbolic-emotional universe is the ultimate evidence of the validity of the interpretation theory and its analytical dimension.

Through clinical fragments taken from the analysis of two so-called 'difficult patients' the author attempts, in this paper, to draw attention to two main points: to the one named as internal setting or analyst's attitude in the session, and to the nature of the contribution in building a favorable atmosphere to patient's development of dream thoughts and intimacy with himself (or herself). Here the interpretation in its classical sense is practically absent. Some correlations with Ferenczi's ideas are also made.

This work aims to focus on the rediscovery, M. s re-encounter with words. It's the narrative of the experience shared in the path from the meaningless to the meaningful word. Through the re-encounter of gestures, facial features, murmurs, in short, a non-spoken and pre-verbal language, which resounded and encountered resonance, associative lanes were built, creating an environment to the circulation of affection, reviving the desire for meaning. The conventional language then was transformed into an individual one, particular to the patient's interiority.

Being stimulated by the necessity to elaborate the loss of an analytical relationship that comes to an end, the author intends to approach it in a free manner, thinking and raising questions about an adolescent analysis by establishing a theoretical-clinical correlation.
This paper consists of a report on the emotional experience of this process and the analyst s reflections and daydreams after the end of this relationship.
The possibility of working with adolescents in analysis is questioned as well as the necessity of a specific technique.
A special approach is made by the author to the life opening that the client achieves with the development of the analytic process, being able to assume at least, some of her growth and experience adolescence.