The Digital Bulletin 79 is composed of texts from the 38th Annual Conference "Freedom - Freiheit - Liberté" (Dresden, April 2025).

Its digital format also gives you access to all publications from this conference thanks to digital links to our EPF website integrated in this interactive bulletin.

The theme of freedom 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.

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 79.

 

Claire-Marine François-Poncet, General Editor

 

Claire-Marine François-Poncet: Editorial

Jan Abram: Presidential Address

Laurence Kahn: The Aberrations of Freedom

Michael Parsons: Discussion of Laurence Kahn’s Paper ‘Les Égarements de la Liberté’

Bernd Nissen: Attempt at a Psychoanalytical Definition of Freedom

Jasminka Šuljagić: Freedom and Psychic Work. Discussion of Bernd Nissen’s Paper ‘An Attempt at a Psychoanalytic Definition of Freedom’

Berdj Papazian: Primary Transitionality or the Nostalgia of Unthinkable Freedom

Monica Bomba: On Communicating as Playing: Three Levels of Symbolisation in Child Psychoanalysis

Alberto Luchetti: ‘Libertà va cercando, ch’è sì cara…’ [‘He Goes in Search of Freedom, Which is so Precious…’]. Translation, Determinism, Emancipation

Brigitte Eoche-Duval: ‘On the echo of my childhood, I write your name, Freedom’ (Paul Eduard, ‘Liberté’, 1942). Discussion of Alberto Luchetti’s Paper ‘“Libertà va cercando, ch’è sì cara…”. Translation, Determinism, Emancipation’

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur: Freedom to Be and to Think Gained After Analysis of Early Primitive Superego

Emmanuelle Chervet: Degrees of Freedom and Infantile Choices: Some Illustrations

Pilar Puertas: Discussion of Emmanuelle Chervet’s Paper: ‘Degrees of Freedom and Infantile Choices: Some Illustrations’

Igor Romanov: The Possibility and Value of Freedom Under Conditions of Threat to Physical and Mental Survival

Eike Hinze: Psychoanalysis, Freedom and War. Discussion of Igor Romanov’s Paper ‘The Possibility and Value of Freedom Under Conditions of Threat to Physical and Mental Survival’

August Ruhs: Freedom and its Discontents

Bent Rosenbaum: Discussion of August Ruhs’s Paper ‘Freedom and its Discontents’

Eran Rolnik: Political Caesura and the Analyst’s Freedom of Thought

In Memoriam: Klaus Grabska

Klaus Grabska: Psychoanalysis Needs Democracy. Discussion of Eran Rolnik’s Paper ‘Political Caesura and the Analyst’s Freedom of Thought’

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