https://doi.org/10.4081/rp.2021.431
One Cannot Touch Without Being Touched: Why Psychoanalysis Needs to Draw from the Perinatal, and Vice Versa
Submitted: October 1, 2020
Accepted: January 6, 2021
Published: April 23, 2021
Accepted: January 6, 2021
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There have been numerous innovations in reproductive medicine. They have led to ethical, social, cultural and medical reflections and have urged the need for a contribution on the part of psychology. The article focuses on the challenges to be faced in the mother-infant domain, centring on the wellness of working people and of the users, and provides a re-reading of the transformation processes and changes occurring in the subject who is about to become a parent, or child. As psychoanalysts and scholars, we can benefit from importing the research and acquisitions of the perinatal world into psychoanalysis since much of it analyses relationships prior to birth, albeit in medical terms. The trend that is of greater interest takes into consideration studies on the perception of touch in children, opening up surprising and fascinating scenarios. The author aims at building a bridge to connect these disciplines and create a parallelism between a certain type of touch (gentle touch) which is perceived only by the CT Fibres and connected to a massive activation of the insula, and the relationship between analyst and patient.
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Florita, M. (2021). One Cannot Touch Without Being Touched: Why Psychoanalysis Needs to Draw from the Perinatal, and <em>Vice Versa</em>. Ricerca Psicoanalitica, 32(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/rp.2021.431
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