This book provides a clear, thorough, and accessible introduction to the work of Antonino Ferro and draws on the clinical vignettes that punctuate his writings to show how Ferro has built on Bion-s revolutionary achievements to develop a distinctive, game-changing version of field theory in psychoanalysis.
The book clarifies the phenomenological insight that the analyst and the patient together generate an ever-evolving, intersubjective field. Rather than the supposed psychology of the individual, it is this populous and multidimensional field, a co-created -in-between- rich in characters and stories, that is to be explored and elaborated. The primary points of access to this new -multiverse- are dream, reverie, metaphor, and imagination. A radical Negative Capability is called for, not least to help dissolve co-constructed -bastions- obstructing the field-s expansion. The book sketches out the Italian and international context in which Ferro developed his thinking
