BASIC MENTAL ORGANIZATION. EUGENIO GADDINI AND THE CIRCULAR PATH OF FREUD-WINNICOTT-FREUD

The Author talks in depth about the many consequences of Gaddini's concept of the "basic mental organization" (BMO). He especially emphasizes that it creates a connection between the primitive psychic functioning and the more developed structural one. This result solves the dichotomy in Winnicott's theory (who believed that both may be studied separately) through the reevaluation of Freud's metapsychological work, in particular for what concerns the economic point of view.