ABSTRACT

Alcira Mariam Alizade, a physician and a psychoanalyst, was a member of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. This chapter covers three central themes that run through her work: femininity, death and positivisation. It introduces fundamental concepts such as "women-only" space, "intrapsychic maternalisation", and "non-maternal psychic space". The chapter also introduces different concepts of dying and living, and develops the concept of "tertiary narcissism". It explores the positive dimension into a concept and explains what Alizade termed the "psychic, that's it". Mariam Alizade's contributions are not only scientific and experiential, but also institutional. In her book, Psychoanalysis and Positivity: Theoretical and Technical Implications, Mariam Alizade makes contributions to technique, thereby promoting intense reflections and questions. Poetically, she leads to think about psychoanalytic treatment as the conquest of life-drive territories, as the appearance of the de-traumatising thought. Psychoanalysis allows one to think about new families, new sexualities and the complexities of new parenthoods.