Description: The current extension of the concept of the unconscious to different levels, configurations, and functioning of the mind is the result of decades of collective reflection on the clinic and on theory. Analysts today have a broader, more refined and complex knowledge of defensive and transformative processes, and this has also led to an evolution in technique. The paper presents a combination of psychoanalytic theory and technique through two clinical cases that present complex articulations of spurious unconscious functional areas and modalities, alternately repressed and not repressed.

Educational Objective(s)
1) To provide the audience with an update on the current extension of the concept of the unconscious, with regard to different levels, configurations and functioning of the mind.
2) To present clinical examples of these new conceptual extensions, to transfer this update to daily therapeutic practice.
Presenter Information

Bio: Stefano Bolognini, M.D. is a psychiatrist and training analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, of which he was Scientific Secretary and President. After serving as a Representative on the first IPA Board, he became its President in 2013 and served in that role until 2017. He also founded the “IPA Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychoanalysis” and is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin (IPU), Honorary Member of the New York Contemporary Freudian Society (NYCFS), and of the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies (LAISPS). Bolognini was a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis for 10 years, and has published over 250 psychoanalytic works, both books and papers.