The author disagrees with several of Imbasciati’s beliefs and states that it is not possible to accept the hypothesis that the success in processing information and its codification in memory are the origin of the functional structures which control various behaviours; he disagrees with Imbasciati’s principle that the primacy of experience surpasses the innate. The author reckons that Imbasciati perceives Bion in a mistaken way by using “learning WITH experience” as if Bion did not value the innate, thus overlooking the Bionian concept of “preconception”.
In the author’s readings, he is under the impression that Imbasciati makes the common mistake of believing that there is an outer and inner reality, indeed, concrete, which must be read by a structure, which, in its turn, is originated from mnemic traits which constitute (or transform into) mental functions: the author considers that this passage from trait into function was not clearly explained. Imbasciati suggests that the first afferent inputs can become organized in order to form the first elaborative structures, so as to “read” and organize the successive afferences and that an afferent complex must be “read” by any preexistent functional structure. At the same time Imbasciati also proposes that “for such a structure to be formed it is necessary some kind of learning”.
It seems that even Imbasciati is stuck with a dilemma as he finishes his article with the question: “If learning demands a protocognitive structure which knows how to use experience, and if such a structure needs any learning to be built, then where, when and how does it start?”

The author delineates his current way of working psychoanalytically, emphasizing the importance of an ongoing attention on the occurrences of the dual psychoanalytic relationship, which express themselves through different ways, verbal as well as extraverbal. Some considerations are made around the concept of interpretation, and some distinctions are proposed between the notions of relational interpretation, extrarelational interpretation and transferential interpretation. The concept of transitional interpretation is put forward in the context of Winnicott’s views on transitional objects, space and phenomena. The author utilizes a few clinical vignettes to illustrate the ideas displayed in the text.

The purpose of this communication is presenting configurations that emerge as dreams or oneiric images, mainly expressed in ludic activities of children during parent-children sessions with an approach that denominates “Therapeutic Joint Parent-Children Interventions”.
Such an approach was inspired on the Esther Bick’s Observation Method, on the W. Bion’s contributions to the comprehension of group functioning, on D. Meltzer’s contributions to understand paternal functions. This procedure has as its main target to promote the communication and understanding of “problem situations” in the group that have motivated the search for help.
This is a short duration approach, enough for conflicting interactions among the participants to be brought to light, now in an attention and continence field created by the analyst, allowing that scattered sensorial and emotional elements in the primordial group, the family, may meet and evolve to meanings, making the thinking operation easier.
One of the analyst’s tasks on this approach is mainly observing and describing to the group interactions among the persons who compose it and who are opposed to the understanding and referral of “problem situations” solutions.
The primordial group has its tasks originated from the practice of the parental functions. On the successive configurations during the session with the primordial group we examine the family as a transformation product of sensorial and emotional experiences converted into visual images, what Bion considers the work of alpha-dream and Meltzer exposes broadly on his “Oneiric Life” (1983).
As it follows, we describe some extracts of parents-children session in order to emphasize the transformations into ludic images of unconscious fantasies of a 3 year old child.
In our view, such images are equivalent to the image-dream of the adults who, notwithstanding, could not be dreamt in a group, and neither the parents were allowed to get in touch with them.

This paper is based on a clinical report which is inserted in a context of therapeutic consultations, showing how a baby with sleep disorders expresses a pathology that is an outcome of psychic transmission through generations via morbid identifications.
The author also tries to correlate the mother’s anguish in containing the sorrow of violent separations and the father’s terrorific fear that can be identified in the emotional history that descends from the grandparents and that have resulted in Maria Clara’s sleep difficulty. It is also possible to identify in the parents the conflictive introjection of parental figures, with raw Oedipical and incest fantasies which are impeditive of constituting a couple. Through the clinical work it is revealed that the baby-girl has a transgenerational mission of clarifying what has remained in the dark in the history of her parents.
Finally, it is discussed as to how the clinical work with families in a precocious intervention model as proposed by Winnicott and Lebovici, enabled working through the symptom expressed by Maria Clara, clarified as she herself could give up the role of being a container of ancestral phantoms, allowing therefore for her emotional development as well as other family members.

The author discusses what has and what has not changed in child psychopathology, based on the premise that societies, at each time, privilege some models of subjectivity and impose some institutionalized meanings on human feelings and behaviour which guide the way people perceive, interpret and categorize empirical phenomena. For that reason there is a historical mobility in the field of psychopathology, due to inclusions and exclusions of diagnostic categories, as well as in new etiopathogenic theories and new therapeutic supplies. There is an increase of demands subordinated to medical paradigms instead of a presumption of a hidden meaning, which claims for interpretation. A clinical situation enlights the effects of biological reductionism that serves to the purpose of avoiding to take responsibility by the own destiny, delegating the task to doctors.

The author presents psychoanalytic and neurobiologic aspects in order to understand depressions, thinking the depressed as a biopsychosocial being. He examines the relations between psychoanalysis, neuroscience and psychiatry, stressing the risk of a biological reductionism which has the danger of loss of psychic subjectivity; in favor of objectivity; henceforth psychoanalysis becomes opposed to psychiatry instead of one associated to the other.
A clinical case illustrates the psychic dynamic of a depressed person, with loss of love for the object, loss of self-esteem and using maniac defenses. These feelings were reactivated in the transference, and through the analyst’s continence, empathy and transformation, it was possible to create for the analysand a space to think about his pains. Through this, he was able to make contact with his conflictive internal world and his subjectivity, replacing the worries he displaced in the external world. Although the use of antidepressive medicine would be indicated during the analytic process, it was only when the patient got hold of his subjectivity that he could be referred to it, which helped him to become more integrated as a person.

This paper offers a new approach to the problem of femininity, understanding it differently from Freud’s sexual monism, the conventional phallic-castrated model. This viewpoint is based above all on the writings of Monique Schneider, Monique David-Ménard and, among us, Joel Birman. This analysis offers a nontraditional interpretation of Freud’s writings on femininity, which is seen as original constitutive condition of all human beings, whether male or female.

In this paper, the author studies the visual scenes realized by some patients when immerse in free association, usually known as oneiric flash, oneiric pictograms or oneiric photograms in the vigil state, emphasizing its high informative value - when communicated to the analyst - describing what is inside the patient’s mind and what is happening in the symbolic space shared by the analytical pair, showing identical value to the ones from the night dreams discussed in analysis.
By examples from some observed cases of his analytical work, he constructs a research path that address the early work of Freud in which visual images have been explored, and continues with Bion, Meltzer and Ferro studies about the existence of a continuous flow of unconscious dreams thoughts, which one, once perceived by the conscious might originate those visual scenes.

Attempts to expand the container-contained model, formulated by Bion (1962a, 1962b) and to use it as an instrument to research thought disorders arising in the analytical context, have led the author to conjecture dynamics of container-contained (Adamo e Lamanno-Adamo 1977, Lamanno-Adamo 1999, Lamanno-Adamo2000).
In this paper, through clinical material it is discussed a hypothetical complaint container to describe a psychic structure which contains only what is pleasant, only what does not causes conflict or pain. Through a dynamic of ideal accommodation, a complaint container makes disappear any disagreements, contradictions, limits and differences, recognizing only what is very familiar and common place. The results are fraudulent thoughts, pseudo-logics, conceptions built from stratagems to maintain a narcissistic defensive system.

From a clinic report the author raises some questions about the rooting process of a psyche in the soma.
Examining how some somatic manifestations of the patient could be seen as signals of a transformation process, which indicates the passage from a hidden body, not nominated, forgotten in the defensive universe, to a body bathed by imagination, a harmonious and more integrated body with psyche.
The emphasis is placed on the somatization that occurs in a phase just before or simultaneous with evident moments of psychic change.
The author resorts to some ideas from Bion, Ferrari and Winnicott concerning psychosomatic manifestations as support for her questioning.

The first part of this paper is related to the transmission of Psychoanalysis in its idealization, identification, infantilization, ideologization and illusion aspects according to Luiz Meyer’s ideas in relation to psychoanalytical training in whole and highlights the fetichism issue.
The second part approaches training supervision. Some issues on the latest bibliography items on the subject are presented. According to some of the international community analysts’ tendencies, the author proposes that supervision be constituted as the centerpiece in the transmission of Psychoanalysis, with the implication that the analyst’s analysis is apart from the institutional transmission, bearing several possibilities in this manner.
The third part which is entitled “current times”, approaches the challenge of the “construction of analysis” in analytical situations, that in the past would not be taken into consideration and which constitutes the majority of our patients nowadays. The option of “fabricating “analysis or “building “it, generates regulation problems in respect to supervision. The need for the recognition of “latent requests” in analysis are highlighted.