title: Enrique Pichon Rivière's conception of reality in psychoanalysis.
abstract: The author places the subject of his paper in the context of the original views of a school of Argentinian psychoanalysts that differed from traditional conceptions of man and his relationship with the sociocultural context - that is, with reality. These were the analysts who followed Enrique Pichon Rivière and further developed his ideas - namely, Madeleine and Willy Baranger, José Bleger, and David Liberman. The author begins his exposition with a discussion of Pichon Rivière and culture. He then offers an outline of Pichon Rivière's particular conception of man, followed by a section on the Internal Group as the nexus between the psyche and reality. Further sections address the idea of reality in the analytic situation as a dynamic field and the operative definition of the transference; the distinction between perceptual reality and the reading of reality, with a consideration of the notion of 'critical judgement'; and lastly the issue of health and illness in terms of adaptation to reality. In addition, on the basis of a quotation from Antonio Damasio, the author draws a parallel between these psychoanalytic thinkers' 'psychosocial' approach to man and the findings of contemporary neuroscience as presented by one of its paradigmatic protagonists.
authors.affiliation: Dr. Luis Agote, 2437, 2°, Capital Federal, 1425, Argentina.
authors.forename: Samuel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Arbiser
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history*; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory
keywords: Internal Group; link; reality; spokesperson