Focus: Delivery-birth and the unconscious feeling of guilt
Vol. 36 No. 2 (2025)
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Commentary on Franco Fornari’s article: 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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Death drive, Super-Ego, myth, delivery-birth, obstetric dilemma

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Antonio Piotti
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Psychologist and Psychotherapist; Lecturer in Prevention and Treatment of Suicidal Risk and The Coinemic Analysis of Franco Fornari at the Minotauro Advanced School of Training, Milan, Italy.

The theme of the death drive, much discussed in psychoanalysis, is addressed by Fornari starting from the myth of the Garden of Eden, with the aim of identifying primary realities that reposition this concept within a natural truth linked to the difficult process through which the human evolution of our species has taken place.

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Antonio Piotti, Psychologist and Psychotherapist; Lecturer in Prevention and Treatment of Suicidal Risk and The Coinemic Analysis of Franco Fornari at the Minotauro Advanced School of Training, Milan

Editor of the publication Il sogno di Irma e il destino della psicoanalisi by Franco Fornari, Mimesis, Milan 2024.

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Commentary on Franco Fornari’s article: 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.2025.1080
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