ABSTRACT
In psychoanalysis, this chapter explains both those who argue that there is a sufficiently shared common ground among its various models and those who believe that there are very significant rifts between these very models that end up generating unbridgeable differences. The first is the Freudian model, which has certain well-defined characteristics: it looks at historical events, at repression, reconstruction, childhood, traumas, the theories of the drives and their vicissitudes and genealogies. The second is the Kleinian model, which looks at early fantasy life, the unconscious fantasies, vicissitudes with the primary object, splits and integrations, the PS and D movement, the death instinct and the weight of envy. Then there is a third model (that takes its inspiration from Bion) which, despite containing these very same conceptualizations – in actual fact, like introjected stories – is more interested in the development of tools for feeling, dreaming and thinking.
