Just as every year, Psychoanalysis: One Theory, One Master is once again bringing together two masters of psychoanalysis. We will have the opportunity to learn about Joyce McDougall, one of the most important psychoanalysts in history, from Jacques Press, one of the contemporary masters of psychoanalysis.

PSYCHOANALYSIS: ONE THOUGHT, ONE MASTER Ronald D. FAIRBAIRN – Steven H. COOPER From Grievance to Grieving: How Does Fairbairnian Theory Help Us to Work with Our Attachment to Bad Objects?

Didier Anzieu has developed his own critical approach of the body in psychoanalysis d uring the seventies, associating Bowlby's view on attachment and the Freudian drives theory. Skin contact, maternal touching and hold ing, all primitive experiences were d escribed as having a fund amental role in the d evelopment of the ego, and linked to adult unconscious functioning.