Focus: Delivery-birth and the unconscious feeling of guilt
Vol. 36 No. 2 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.4081/rp.2025.1079

The delivery-birth and the unconscious feeling of guilt as pure culture of death drive

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Published: 29 August 2025
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Franco Fornari
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst, and Academic, Italy.

If the Freudian theory of unconscious feeling of guilt as pure culture of death drive can be considered a delusion, it is incumbent upon us psychoanalysts to search for the historical truth, of which it is a dreamlike transformation. [...]

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Franco Fornari, Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst, and Academic

Franco Fornari (Rivergaro, 1921 - Milan, 1985) was one of the most insightful Italian Psychiatrists, Psychoanalysts, and Academics. He was a student of Cesare Musatti and influenced by Melanie Klein and Wilfred Bion; he integrated psychoanalysis with philosophy, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, and politics. Fornari was among the first in Italy to reflect on the unconscious meaning of war; he elaborated the concept of ‘primary paranoia’ as key to understanding collective conflicts. Starting with a new conception of the unconscious as inhabited by innate parental and erotic structures, he founded coinemic analysis and code analysis as tools for extending the application of psychoanalysis to contexts that are not only clinical. Among his best-known works are The Psychoanalysis of War (1966), recently reprinted by Feltrinelli; The Foundations of a Psychoanalytic Theory of Language, Boringhieri 1979; Irma’s Dream and the Fate of Psychoanalysis, published posthumously by Mimesis in 2024. Founder of Minotauro (an institute for the analysis of affective codes), Fornari died in 1985 from sudden illness at the university.

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The delivery-birth and the unconscious feeling of guilt as pure culture of death drive. (2025). Ricerca Psicoanalitica, 36(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/rp.2025.1079
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