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.