Il sogno luogo della meraviglia. Il contributo di Maurice Merleau-Ponty alla psicoanalisi post-bioniana

This PhD research investigates the role that the dream plays in those psychic and perceptual processes that are constitutive of subjectivity. To this end, it combines a philosophical analysis, which finds in Maurice Merleau-Ponty its main point of reference, with the post-Bionian psychoanalytic approach to be found in the work of Thomas Ogden and within the analytic field. The thesis prominently focuses on the latter. It develops a philosophical and psychoanalytic reading that highlights the centrality of the dream and the rêverie in the processes of perception, the central role they play in both the construction and the destitution of subjectivity. Such a reading reveals that the most crucial aspects of the post-Bionian psychoanalytic reflection are in line with the Merleau-Pontinian thought. In particular, Merleau-Ponty pays attention to the non-repressed unconscious and articulates its complexity without defining it. Thus, possible interpretative lines emerge from this research that lead us toward a different understanding of the subject: one that cannot be entirely resolved within the linguistic categories of the symbolic and the imaginary.