Conference 2025 papers

This collection includes a range of presentations from the EPF Conference, such as plenary sessions, parallel panels, working groups, and individual paper submissions.

Plenaries

Monica Bomba: On Communicating as Playing: Three Levels of Symbolisation in Child Psychoanalysis
Laurence Kahn: The Aberrations of Freedom
Bernd Nissen: Attempt at a Psychoanalytical Definition of Freedom
Berdj Papazian: Primary Transitionality or the Nostalgia of Unthinkable Freedom
Michael Parsons: Discussion of Laurence Kahn’s paper ‘Les égarements de la liberté’
Jasminka Šuljagić: Freedom and Psychic Work. Discussion of Bernd Nissen’s Paper ‘An Attempt at a Psychoanalytic Definition of Freedom’

Parallel Panels and Working Groups

Jan Abram: Opening
Tatiana Alavidze: Discussion of Claudia Frank's paper "I decide what is true!” On the struggle for freedom of thought in the face of internal (and external) propaganda
Patricia Alkolombre: Desire, Gender and Freedom
Christine Anzieu-Premmereur: Freedom to be and to think gained after analysis of early primitive superego
Charles Baekeland: Freedom from Unrealistic Science –– Freedom to Believe: The Nature of Psychoanalytical Knowledge and its Narcissistic Investment by Psychoanalysts
Bettina Beil-Berdal, Kristin Fjelnseth Wold, Benedetta Guerrini Degl’Innocenti, Valentino Ferro: Freedom and Authority in Psychoanalytic Education in our Times
Leopoldo Bleger, Serge Frisch, Yvette Dorey: Difficult freedom / Freedom on parole, Free association in the mechanism of Specificity
Victor Blüml: Freiheit und Elternmord oder das Ringen um Gedankenfreiheit Kommentar zu Sylvia Schulzes Vortrag
Valérie Ji-Sook Burnet: Oral discussion on : ‘speak freely or will you lose your freedom ? by Piotr KRZAKOWSKI, Société Psychoanalytique de Paris (SPP), Paris
Bernard Chervet: DISCUSSION OF MILAGROS CID'S CONTRIBUTION, Freedom and Boundaries in Psychoanalytical Institutions
Emmanuelle Chervet: Degrees of Freedom and Infantile Choices: Some Illustrations
Milagros Cid Sanz: Freedom and Boundaries in Psychoanalytical Institutions
Christine Diercks: Sigmund Freud Archive & Edition
Ronald Doctor: Forgiveness and Freedom; Turning Ghosts into Ancestors
Martina Burdet Dombald: Discussion of Dimo Stanchev's paper: What presence is there in online absence? Between freedom and discomfort
Johannes Döser: Good Friday Food and Fizz Powder - The birth of memory from the artistic gift of fantasizing
Christine English: Psychoanalytic Archives and Freedom: The Melanie Klein Archive
Brigitte Eoche-Duval: Discussion du texte d’Alberto Luchetti « Sur l’écho de mon enfance, j’écris ton nom, Liberté »
Teresa Flores: Discussion of COCAP Panel
Paolo Fonda: Freedom and the development of Psychoanalysis in Eastern Europe
Christine Franckx: In search of a mind of one’s own: Unconscious phantasies of space and time in the analysis of an adult patient
Claudia Frank: ‘I decide what is true!’ On the struggle for freedom of thought in the face of internal (and external) propaganda
Nasim Ghaffari, Carine Minne: The Interplay of Freedom and Dependency: Exploring Gendered Realities
Nasim Ghaffari: Discussion of Papers by Asli Erkan and Gordana Maksimovic
Leticia Glocer Fiorini: SEXUALITY, GENDER AND FREEDOM
Marc Hebbrecht: LIBERTÉ INTÉRIEURE ET VÉRITÉ. Réflexions sur la contribution de Jean Arundale
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’
Didier Houzel: Discussion of the case presented by Maria Mirabella
Elisabeth Imhorst: Rückzug aus dem Geschlechtskörper und Veränderung des Denkens
Alexander Janssen: Psychoanalysis, a road to freedom. The analysis of a case of intergenerational transmission of trauma from a Japanese internment camp in Indonesia during World War II, 1942-1945.
Angela Köhler-Weisker: Parent-Infant Psychotherapy: A liberating method for postpartum depression of the mother with her baby
Sue Kolod, Petra Heymanns, Maria Pia Conte: Escape from Freedom, Revisited: Anxiety and Freedom within Groups
Ruggero Levy: The Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment: the Birth of a Method - or the Fruit of a Group Dream
Alberto Luchetti: « Libertà va cercando, ch’è sì cara… » [« Il cherche liberté, qui est si chère… »] Traduction, déterminisme, émancipation
Marta Mirabella, Laura Accetti: Adolescence and transition: creative freedom or defensive organization
Ewan O’Neill: Psychoanalytic Archives and Freedom: The Balint Archive
Pınar Limnili Özeren: From Oskar's Tin Drum to Günter Grass's Typewriter
Denny Panitz: Wings of Freedom: The Process of Transformation From an Encapsulated Biological Soma to a Libidinal Body − A Psychosomatic Approach
Eva D. Papiasvili, Jerome S. Blackman, Antonio Pérez-Sánchez: FREEDOM IN FREE ASSOCIATION. IRED
Johannes Picht: "Das Denken macht sich frei" (Thinking frees itself - La pensée se libère) - A reading of Freud's "Negation" ("Die Verneinung", "La Négation") and its translations
Adriana Prengler: Discussion of Psychic Freedom in Times of Catastrophe
Pilar Puertas: Discussion of Emmanuelle Chervet’s Paper: ‘Degrees of Freedom and Infantile Choices’
Bernd Pütz: Theoretical pluralism: How do psychoanalysts deal with it? Outlines of a model
Eran J. Rolnik: Political Caesura and the Analysts' Freedom of Thought
Igor Romanov: The Possibility and Value of Freedom Under Conditions of Threat to Physical and Mental Survival
Bent Rosenbaum: Discussion of August Ruhs’s Paper ‘Freedom and its Discontents’
August Ruhs: Freedom and its Discontents
Sylvia Schulze: Freies Denken in psychoanalytischen Institutionen – eine Illusion?
Anat Schumann: On Psychic Freedom Within Gender-Related States of Mind
Stefanie Sedlacek: Discussion of Johannes Picht's lecture: ‘Thinking frees itself’
Torsten Siol: Discussion of "Freedom and Authority in Psychoanalytic Education in our Times"
Dimo Stantchev: What kind of presence in the absence when working online? Between freedom and discontents.
Martin Teising: German entanglements and their reactivation in old age
Dorothee von Tippelskirch-Eissing: A Psychoanalytic Experience in the Consulting Room – Gaining Freedom vis à vis Collective Trauma
Carlos Vasquez, Mónica Cardenal: Psychic freedom and psychic captivities in children during times of war in Ukraine
Alfred Walter: How can I free myself from the threatening ghosts of the past? From the analysis of a 5-year-old child

Individual Papers

Maria Antónia Carreiras: L’éventuelle liberté de désobéir
Victoria Barker: Psychoanalytic Publication and the Freedom of Disguise
Jerome Scott Blackman: The Theme of Freedom in Bizet’s Carmen
Luisa Branco Vicente: Infinity is the fragile limit of our inner Freedom
Jorge Camara Lomelino Camara: Freedom and trauma in late adolescence gender transition
Amit Edelstein: Human Overboard: The psychological Challenges of Mental Freedom
C.-M. François-Poncet, G. Le Coeur: La liberté de l’inspiration
Gaddini A., Ippedico L., Riefolo G.: Freedom in the dissociative process
Anna Gąsiorowska-Krawczyk: In-between. From a Fossil to the Statue of Liberty. On the parallel processes of reclaiming freedom within patient and analyst
Jérôme Glas: L’amour au premier regard
Ludovica Grassi: Free or Unfree Identities
Marie-Aimée Hays, Armelle Hours, Marie Longin: La Liberté chez D.W.Winnicott : L'enseignement du Cas Cecil
Khatuna Ivanishvili: Compulsory Repetition of the Circular Movements Towards Freedom
Rosa Jaitin, Elizabeth Palacios: The Beauty of Freedom
Between Psychic Determinism and Social Constraint
Piotr Krzakowski: « Parlez librement ou vous perdrez votre liberté ! » Le paradoxe de l’obligation de soin comme un des gradients de contrainte dans la cure
Alice Marble: Freedom from the Self
Stefano Monzani: Défendre la liberté
Tamara Peleg-Cohen: The Yearning for Freedom: Revisiting the Curative Factor in Psychoanalysis in the Contemporary Clinic
İshak Sayğılı: From We-Ness to Freedom: Anteros, and Becoming Subject
Frank Schumann: Vom Anderen zum Selbst. Selbstbestimmung durch Verinnerlichung, Anerkennung oder Übersetzung?
Barış Özgen Şensoy: From Tyranny to Democratic Freedom: Psychoanalysis Meets the Struggle
Nino Sesiashvili: Psychic Freedom and Symbolization: The Impact of Early Maternal Omnipotence on Analytical Treatment
Darren Thompson: Love’s Freedoms & Revelations: as illustrated by Vermeer’s “Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window”
Tuba Tokgoz: Translating the Infantile: The Psychoanalyst's Receptivity to Early and Unarticulated Experiences as a Path to Emotional Freedom
Helene Wolf: Who is the Fascist? – Freedom and Boundaries in Psychoanalysis