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The Unconscious Without a Subject, or When AI fails to Stumble
Drawing on Freud's dream theory and Lacan's conception of the subject, Alenka Zupančič shows that AI realizes in caricatural form the post-structuralist dissolution of the subject in discourse, this small review reconstructs her theses and proposes some further exploration
Understanding the Work of G. Civitarese
This essay surveys the work of Italian psychoanalyst Giuseppe Civitarese, one of the foremost figures of post-Bionian field theory. Drawing on his major publications — from The Violence of Emotions to Psychoanalytic Field Theory: A Contemporary Introduction — it traces his creative rereading of Bion, his collaboration with Antonino Ferro, and the conceptual axes that distinguish his contribution: the dream spectrum of the session, the aesthetic dimension of analytic experience, and a radical intersubjectivity that redefines the analytic field as a shared space of unconscious dreaming. The essay concludes with a dialectical examination of the constitutive tensions and open questions his work raises.