What is the function of faith and trust in psychoanalysis?

Unlike other concepts such as 'illusion, 'capacity to tolerate frustration' and 'libidinal investment, the concept of faith has not yet found a well-defined position in psychoanalytic theory. Bion focused on faith and placed it in an unusual context: scientific work. Through the Act of Faith a researcher can give some consistency to certain ideas, hunches or intuitions that may appear during observation, though he cannot represent them by existing theory. Through the Act of Faith an analyst can 'see', 'hear' and 'feel' those mental phenomena, the reality of which leaves no practising psychoanalysts in doubt, even if they cannot represent them by current formulations. In this paper the author aims to expand Bion proposals into the clinical and therapeutic fields. In the first part, the author examines how faith and trust overlap, and how they depart from each other and he gives an example. Faith possesses an igniting and driving force which trust doesn't possess to the same extent. 117 the second part, the author looks at F as a psychic function of the analyst, which aids him in supporting a depressed and hopeless patient while waiting for the return of the patient desire to live. In the final part, he focuses on F from the patient point of view and studies the transformations of F that may occur during an analysis

CONODONT BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE S.CASSIANO FORMATION SURROUNDING THE SELLA MASSIF (DOLOMITES, ITALY): IMPLICATIONS FOR SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC MODELS OF THE TRIASSIC OF THE SOUTHERN ALP

The stratigraphy and age of the S.Cassiano Formation outcropping around the Sella Massif (Dolomites, Northern Italy) were investigated. The unit interfingers with slope deposits pertaining to the Cassian carbonate platform of the Sella Massif. Several stratigraphic sections were analyzed from a sedimentologic and biostratigraphic perspective.Three section (Sella Pass Ia and Ib,Gardena Pass) yielded stratigraphically significant conodont faunas referable to the diebeli Assemblage Zone sensu Krystyn (1983) of latest Ladinian age. Therefore, the Sella Cassian Platform traditionally regarded as a typical Carnian buildup, is also latest Ladinian age. The occurrence of the post-volcanic carbonate platforms older (e.g.Denti di Terra Rossa) and younger (e.g.,the Nuvolau and Lagazuoi platform) than the Sella Platform,suggest that :a) the post-volcanic and Cassian succession of the Dolomites is fare more complex than traditionally thought and b) a sequence stratigraphic model of the Middle-Upper Triassic of the Dolomites based on two generations of Cassian platforms is clearly inadequate to describe the actual succession. &nbsp

La verità come fattore terapeutico

La prima sezione del libro (Neri), legame di conoscenza, propone un “ripensamento” della visione bioniana della nozione di Verità e della psicoanalisi quale “processo veritativo”

Introduzione al numero di Funzione Gamma dedicato allo Psicodramma analitico di gruppo.

In che modo lo Psicodramma può dare un contributo alla Psicoterapia di gruppo? Come è possibile mettere in rapporto queste due pratiche? I miei ricordi sono andati alla breve esperienza di training con Jennie e Paul Lemoine ed alla recente partecipazione alle appassionate “lezioni-dimostrazioni” tenute da Luisa Mele e Paola Cecchetti all’università “La Sapienza”. La lettura degli articoli di questo numero di Funzione Gamma ha poi suggerito l’utilità di indagare tre possibili aree di intersezione

Colloquio con Balbino

In questa intervista-conversazione con Balbino sono trattati i temi dell'Orixà, della natura, del sogno, dei livelli di coscienza, della preveggenza, dello stato di trance, del destino e dell'effetto benefico che energia ed esperienza condivise hanno sulla comunità

CONODONT BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE LATE TRIASSIC SEQUENCE OF MONTE COCUZZO (CATENA COSTIERA, CALABRIA, ITALY)

Preliminary results are reported from an investigation of the conodont associations found in the Late Triassic carbonate succession of the so-called "Catena Costiera Calabrese" that crops out in the tectonic window of Monte Cocuzzo. The succession of Colle del Crapio consists of alternating carbonate mud, breccia and calciturbidites deposited in a toe-of-slope to basin setting and contains rich and well-preserved conodont faunas pertaining to two biozones. The lower zone is characterised by the occurrence of Epigondolella slovakensis and may be referred to the Late Norian (Sevatian). The upper zone is characterised by Misikella hernsteini associated with M. posthernsteini. The chronostratigraphic setting of the latter zone is more controversial, as it may be regarded as latest Sevatian (Upper Norian) according to Krystyn (1990) and Golebiowski (1990), while according to the zonation of Kozur & Mock (1991) the first occurrence of M. posthernsteini marks the beginning of the Rhaetian stage.  &nbsp

Association of P53 Codon 72 with Colon Cancer: the Role of Genetic Factors

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A evolução da pobreza e da desigualdade brasileiras ao longo da década de 90

This paper describes the evolution of poverty and inequality in Brazil during the 1990s. In particular, it qualifies the effects of the Real plan on social welfare. The main methodological contributions of the paper refers to the use of longitudinal information. First, we present a dynamic comparison of changes of income distribution that allow us to relax the hypothesis of anonimity (or alternatively a constant ranking). Second, the fall of inequality of current monthly income during the post stabilization period overestimates the fall of inequality of permanent income. The difference between these two inequality measures can be explained in terms of the fall ofthe temporal variability of individual income. As its name suggests one key implication of a successful stabilization program is to make actual earnings more stable