We are inaugurating this year the digital bulletin, sent electronically to all EPF members and candidates. Composed of texts from the 37th Annual Conference "Identifications – Identifizierungen – Identifications" (Florence, March 2024), its digital format also gives you access to all publications from this conference thanks to digital links to our website integrated in this interactive bulletin.

The theme of identifications has allowed us to cover several fields, metapsychological, theoretical, and clinical, as well as historical and contemporary approaches to the socio-political issues of our time. Our mutual identifications as EPF psychoanalysts, our unity around a clinical practice faithful to the analytical method, are largely responsible for the unprecedented success of this 37th conference.

We express our gratitude to the previous executive, under the presidency of Heribert Blass, for the initiative of this innovative and powerful turning point of the digital bulletin. This bulletin offers potential exploration within your digital space thanks to a number of functions that you will discover through your reading.

Best wishes, dear authors and readers, for a fruitful reading of the digital Bulletin 78.

Claire-Marine François-Poncet, General Editor

Claire-Marine François-Poncet: Editorial

Heribert Blass: 37th Conference of the EPF Presidential Address

Rosine J. Perelberg: The Mise-en-scène of Identifications in the Analytic Encounter

Catherine Chabert: Discussion of Rosine Perelberg’s Paper ‘The Mise-en-scène of Identifications in the Analytic Encounter’

Stefano Bolognini: The ‘How’ of the Identification Processes Between Physiology and Pathology

Renata Sgier: Discussion of Stefano Bolognini’s Paper ‘The “How” of the Identification Processes Between Physiology and Pathology’

Teresa Olmos de Paz: ‘The Guests of the Ego’: Identifications and their Deconstructions-Reconstructions in Psychoanalytic Clinical Practice

Daniel Barth: Identifications and Besetzungen

Rudi Vermote: Levels of Identification

Ilan Bernat: Primary, Transitional and Cross-Identifications – A Winnicottian Conceptualisation of Identifications Using Vermote’s Three-Level Model of Psychic Functioning. Discussion of Rudi Vermote’s Paper ‘Levels of Identification’

Ludger M. Hermanns: Psychoanalytic Archives as Places of Memory of Psychoanalysis (Using the Example of the Archive for the History of Psychoanalysis in Germany)

Eveline List: Archives: From Material Storage to Knowledge and Meaning Production. Discussion of Ludgar M. Hermanns’s Paper ‘Psychoanalytic Archives as Places of Memory of Psychoanalysis (Using the Example of the Archive for the History of Psychoanalysis in Germany)’

Cosimo Schinaia: Catastrophism and Catastrophic Images. Ferenczi’s Identification with the Aggressor and Ogden’s ‘Autistic-Contiguous Position’ as Defence Mechanisms

Elda Abrevaya: From Sameness to the Otherness of the Object

Anna Ferruta: On the Core Self, Inaccessible to Identifications. ‘How to be Isolated Without Having to be Insulated?’ (Winnicott, 1963)

Björn Sahlberg: Primary Identification and Objectless States: ‘Talking About Eros, Dreaming of Agape’

Merav Roth: Simultaneous Identifications

Didier Houzel: Discussion of Merav Roth’s Paper ‘Simultaneous Identifications’

Julie Augoyard: The Idealised Figures of Excess and Hyperbole: An Identificatory Issue for Today’s Adolescents

Massimo Ammaniti: Parental and Peer Identifications During Adolescence

Sara Boffito: Who’s Afraid of Cruella De Vil? Evil Characters and the Search of Existence

Rui Aragão Oliveira, Conceição Melo Almeida, João Keating: Identifications in Training – The Never-Ending Road to Thebes

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