Table Of ContentTHE WORK OF CONFLUENCE
PSYCHOANALYTIC IDEAS AND APPLICATIONS SERIES
IPA Publications Committee
Leticia Glocer Fiorini (Buenos Aires), Chair; Salman Akhtar (Philadelphia); Thierry Bokanowski
(Paris); Sergio Lewkowicz (Porto Alegre); Mary Kay O’Neil (Montreal); David Coe (London),
Ex-officio as Director General
The Art of Interpretation:
Deconstruction and New Beginning in the Psychoanalytic Process
Wolfgang Loch
edited and commentary by Peter Wegner
The Unconscious: Further Reflections
edited by José Carlos Calich & Helmut Hinz
Escape from Selfhood: Breaking Boundaries and Craving for Oneness
Ilany Kogan
The Conscious in Psychoanalysis
Antonio Alberto Semi
From Impression to Inquiry: A Tribute to the Work of Robert Wallerstein
edited by Wilma Bucci & Norbert Freedman; associate editor Ethan A. Graham
Talking about Supervision: 10 Questions, 10 Analysts = 100 Answers
edited by Laura Elliot Rubinstein
Envy and Gratitude Revisited
edited by Priscilla Roth & Alessandra Lemma
Madeleine & Willy Baranger
THE WORK OF CONFLUENCE
Listening and Interpreting
in the Psychoanalytic Field
Edited and with a commentary by
Leticia Glocer Fiorini
Foreword by
Cláudio Laks Eizirik
Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series
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CONTENTS
PSYCHOANALYTIC IDEAS AND APPLICATIONS SERIES
IPA Publications Committee vii
ABOUT THE EDITOR ix
FOREWORD
Cláudio Laks Eizirik xi
1 “Insight” in the analytic situation
Madeleine Baranger & Willy Baranger 1
2 The notion of “material”
and the prospective temporal aspect of interpretation
Willy Baranger 17
3 Spiral process and the dynamic field
Willy Baranger 45
4 Process and non-process in analytic work
Madeleine Baranger, Willy Baranger, & Jorge Mario Mom 63
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5 The mind of the analyst:
from listening to interpretation
Madeleine Baranger 89
6 The infantile psychic trauma from us to Freud:
pure trauma, retroactivity, and reconstruction
Madeleine Baranger, Willy Baranger, & Jorge Mario Mom 107
7 Contradictions between theory and technique
in psychoanalysis
Willy Baranger 137
8 Bad faith, identity, and omnipotence
Madeleine Baranger 179
9 The dead–alive:
object structure in mourning and depressive states
Willy Baranger 203
10 The ego and the function of ideology
Willy Baranger 217
Final comments
Leticia Glocer Fiorini 229
REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY 237
INDEX 245
PSYCHOANALYTIC IDEAS AND APPLICATIONS SERIES
IPA Publications Committee
The Publications Committee of the International Psychoanalytical
Association continues, with this volume, the series: “Psychoanalytic
Ideas and Applications”.
The aim is to focus on the scientific production of significant
authors whose works are outstanding contributions to the devel-
opment of the psychoanalytic field and to set out relevant ideas
and themes, generated during the history of psychoanalysis, that
deserve to be discussed by present psychoanalysts. The relation-
ship between psychoanalytic ideas and their applications has to
be put forward from the perspective of theory, clinical practice,
technique, and research so as to maintain their validity for con-
temporary psychoanalysis. The Publication Committee’s objective
is to share these ideas with the psychoanalytic community and with
professionals in other related disciplines, in order to expand their
knowledge and generate a productive interchange between the text
and the reader.
With this collection of Madeleine and Willy Baranger’s main
significant papers, the Publications Committee achieves the aim
of publishing and expanding the Barangers’ oeuvre in the English
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language and, consequently, reaching a broader spectrum of read-
ers. These contributions represent a pioneering and anticipatory
work of great interest to the psychoanalytic world. Their proposals
concerning the concepts of psychoanalytic field, “basic unconscious
fantasy”, bastion, and insight address the whole question of the
analytic situation and anticipate current debates.
Special thanks are due to Mrs Madeleine Baranger for her in-
valuable assistance and to Cláudio Laks Eizirik for his Foreword to
this volume.
Leticia Glocer Fiorini
Chair, IPA Publications Committee
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Leticia Glocer Fiorini is a training psychoanalyst of the Argentine
Psychoanalytic Association. She is the current chair of the Publica-
tions Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association
and of the Publications Committee of the Argentine Psychoanalytic
Association, and is a former member of the Editorial Board of the
Revista de Psicoanálisis (1998–2002, Buenos Aires). She won the
Celes Cárcamo Prize (APA, 1993) for her paper, “The Feminine
Position: A Heterogeneous Construction”. She is the author of De-
constructing the Feminine (2007) and editor in Spanish of El otro en la
trama intersubjetiva [The other in the intersubjective field], Tiempo,
historia y estructura [Time, history and structure], Los laberintos de la
violencia [Labyrinths of violence], and El Cuerpo. Lenguajes y silencios
[The body: Languages and silences]. Among other contributions in
psychoanalytic journals, she has also published: “The Sexed Body
and the Real: Its Meaning in Transsexualism” in Masculine Scenarios;
“Psicoanálisis y género. Convergencias y divergencias”, in Psicoanáli-
sis y relaciones de género [“Psychoanalysis and gender: Convergences
and divergences”, in Psychoanalysis and Gender Relations]; and “The
Bodies of Present-Day Maternity”, in Motherhood in the Twenty-First
Century.
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