Giuseppe Civitarese, PhD,is a psychiatrist and training and supervising analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI) and a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), both affiliated with the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA).

• Chapter 1Towards a (New) Psychoanalytic CriticismGiuseppe Civitarese, Sara Boffito and Francesco CapelloChapter 2Aesthetic Conflict and Abjection in Boccaccio’s (L)IsabettaChapter 3Changing Styles, Affective Continuities and Psychic Containers: Corrado Govoni’s Early PoetryFrancesco Capello and Giuseppe CivitareseChapter 4Do Cyborgs Dream? Post-human Landscapes in Shinya Tsukamoto’s Nightmare DetectiveChapter 5The Dream Screen and the Birth of the Psyche in Ingmar Bergman’s PersonaChapter 6What’s Going to Happen to Us Without Barbarians? Guilt and Paranoia in Michael Haneke’s HiddenChapter 7Joseph Losey’s The Servant, the Shattered LifeChapter 8The Last Riot and the Déjà Vu Decapitations of the AES+F GroupReferencesAbout the Author

Giuseppe Civitarese has given us another thought provoking and wonderful new book to open our analytic minds to new ways of thinking about what we analysts do. This volume begins with a discussion of the meaning of ‘beheading,’ a topic that could not be more current as the destruction of the mind, and Civitarese beautifully examines how psychoanalytic theory and art criticism are related endeavors that each strengthen and build the mind. This erudite and aesthetically rich book continues Civitarese’s exploration of psychoanalysis and aesthetics that he began in his previous publication, The Violence of Emotions: Bion and Post-Bionian Psychoanalysis. This present volume further establishes Civitarese as a leading creative thinker in contemporary psychoanalysis.

Giuseppe Civitarese, PhD,is a psychiatrist and training and supervising analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI) and a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), both affiliated with the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA).

• Chapter 1Towards a (New) Psychoanalytic CriticismGiuseppe Civitarese, Sara Boffito and Francesco CapelloChapter 2Aesthetic Conflict and Abjection in Boccaccio’s (L)IsabettaChapter 3Changing Styles, Affective Continuities and Psychic Containers: Corrado Govoni’s Early PoetryFrancesco Capello and Giuseppe CivitareseChapter 4Do Cyborgs Dream? Post-human Landscapes in Shinya Tsukamoto’s Nightmare DetectiveChapter 5The Dream Screen and the Birth of the Psyche in Ingmar Bergman’s PersonaChapter 6What’s Going to Happen to Us Without Barbarians? Guilt and Paranoia in Michael Haneke’s HiddenChapter 7Joseph Losey’s The Servant, the Shattered LifeChapter 8The Last Riot and the Déjà Vu Decapitations of the AES+F GroupReferencesAbout the Author

Giuseppe Civitarese has given us another thought provoking and wonderful new book to open our analytic minds to new ways of thinking about what we analysts do. This volume begins with a discussion of the meaning of ‘beheading,’ a topic that could not be more current as the destruction of the mind, and Civitarese beautifully examines how psychoanalytic theory and art criticism are related endeavors that each strengthen and build the mind. This erudite and aesthetically rich book continues Civitarese’s exploration of psychoanalysis and aesthetics that he began in his previous publication, The Violence of Emotions: Bion and Post-Bionian Psychoanalysis. This present volume further establishes Civitarese as a leading creative thinker in contemporary psychoanalysis.

Giuseppe Civitarese, PhD,is a psychiatrist and training and supervising analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI) and a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), both affiliated with the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA).

• Chapter 1Towards a (New) Psychoanalytic CriticismGiuseppe Civitarese, Sara Boffito and Francesco CapelloChapter 2Aesthetic Conflict and Abjection in Boccaccio’s (L)IsabettaChapter 3Changing Styles, Affective Continuities and Psychic Containers: Corrado Govoni’s Early PoetryFrancesco Capello and Giuseppe CivitareseChapter 4Do Cyborgs Dream? Post-human Landscapes in Shinya Tsukamoto’s Nightmare DetectiveChapter 5The Dream Screen and the Birth of the Psyche in Ingmar Bergman’s PersonaChapter 6What’s Going to Happen to Us Without Barbarians? Guilt and Paranoia in Michael Haneke’s HiddenChapter 7Joseph Losey’s The Servant, the Shattered LifeChapter 8The Last Riot and the Déjà Vu Decapitations of the AES+F GroupReferencesAbout the Author

Giuseppe Civitarese has given us another thought provoking and wonderful new book to open our analytic minds to new ways of thinking about what we analysts do. This volume begins with a discussion of the meaning of ‘beheading,’ a topic that could not be more current as the destruction of the mind, and Civitarese beautifully examines how psychoanalytic theory and art criticism are related endeavors that each strengthen and build the mind. This erudite and aesthetically rich book continues Civitarese’s exploration of psychoanalysis and aesthetics that he began in his previous publication, The Violence of Emotions: Bion and Post-Bionian Psychoanalysis. This present volume further establishes Civitarese as a leading creative thinker in contemporary psychoanalysis.