At the beginning of the last century, in the background of the emerging psychoanalytic movement, Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi started wondering about the infant, observing him and evaluating the chances of cure, trying to break out from a purely theoretical and pedagogical modus operandi. In particular, Freud and Ferenczi «set out to listen» to two children, little Hans and little Árpád, and their psychic suffering. This led to some original hypotheses that were aligned with each other only superficially. The critical comparison between the two clinical cases presented in this paper underlines some thematic core ideas belonging to both, and others which differentiate between them. The aim is to show the unconscious oscillation between phantasmatic and real traumas, between psychic and environmental reality. Thus, Freud and Ferenczi’s pioneering considerations about children and their development represent an essential starting point for study and debate within the psychoanalytic movement
Agli inizi del secolo scorso, sullo sfondo del costituendo movimento psicoanalitico, Sigmund Freud e Sándor Ferenczi iniziano ad interrogarsi sull’infante, a osservarlo e a chiedersi quali siano le possibilità di cura, cercando di uscire da un modus operandi puramente teorico e pedagogico. In particolare, Freud e Ferenczi si «mettono all’ascolto» di due bambini, il piccolo Hans e il piccolo Árpád, e del loro disagio. Ne scaturiscono ipotesi originali, solo apparentemente allineate. Il confronto critico tra i due casi clinici cerca di evidenziare alcuni nuclei tematici che appartengono ad entrambi e altri che li differenziano. Lo scopo è quello di mettere in scena l’inconscio che oscilla tra traumi fantasmatici e traumi reali, tra realtà psichica e realtà ambientale. Le pionieristiche riflessioni di Freud e Ferenczi sul bambino e il suo sviluppo costituiscono così un imprescindibile punto di partenza di importanti sviluppi e dibattiti all’interno del movimento psicoanalitico.
Oasi, O., Hans e Arpad: note a margine su fantasma e trauma, <<RIVISTA DI PSICOANALISI>>, 2014; (LX): 1-22 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/64278]
Hans e Arpad: note a margine su fantasma e trauma
Oasi, Osmano
2014
Abstract
At the beginning of the last century, in the background of the emerging psychoanalytic movement, Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi started wondering about the infant, observing him and evaluating the chances of cure, trying to break out from a purely theoretical and pedagogical modus operandi. In particular, Freud and Ferenczi «set out to listen» to two children, little Hans and little Árpád, and their psychic suffering. This led to some original hypotheses that were aligned with each other only superficially. The critical comparison between the two clinical cases presented in this paper underlines some thematic core ideas belonging to both, and others which differentiate between them. The aim is to show the unconscious oscillation between phantasmatic and real traumas, between psychic and environmental reality. Thus, Freud and Ferenczi’s pioneering considerations about children and their development represent an essential starting point for study and debate within the psychoanalytic movementI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.