Psychoanalysis of the Psychoanalytic Frame Revisited

Psychoanalysis of the Psychoanalytic Frame Revisited provides an in-depth discussion of José Bleger’s work, broadening current knowledge and focusing on his significant contribution to psychoanalytic thinking. This work should prove especially relevant in considering the implications of changes in the treatment setting forced by the Covid pandemic.

This edited collection proposes a current debate on José Bleger's ideas on the psychoanalytic setting. The contributors here provide a broad overview of current discussions about the analytic setting, its clinical expressions and its technical management, engaging and transforming the concept of "encuadre" (frame). The book covers topics including early experiences, the psychoanalytic setting, symbiosis and applications in a pandemic. A common thread, Bleger's brilliant intuition, runs through the book, and the tense relationship between the frame and the figure maintains its dynamics throughout.

Psychoanalysis of the Psychoanalytic Frame Revisited will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training, as well as anyone seeking to understand the work of José Bleger.

Carlos Moguillansky is MD, Master in culture, Training Analyst, Former Scientific Secretary and President of APDEBA. He is a former member of the board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and a current member of the IPA Publications Committee. He has also authored papers and books in Spanish, many of them are translated into English, Armenian, Russian, Portuguese and French.

Howard B. Levine is a member of APSA, PINE, the Contemporary Freudian Society, NYU Post-Doc’s Contemporary Freudian Track, and in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. He is the author of Affect, Representation and Language: Between the Silence and the Cry (Routledge 2022) and Editor-in-Chief of the Routledge W.R. Bion Studies Book Series.