Abstract
Reviewing leading experts’ works on this topic, the author proposes a new taxonomy of affects, capable of avoiding the widespread terminological confusions. Then the paper explores the challenging complexity of affects in its relation to the Freudian concept of drive thanks to the recent contributions of Epigenetics, Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Infant research, Attachment Theory and Fonagy-Target Theory of Mentalisation. Finally, it is explained as to how from these theories that by focusing on the central role of affects in all mental functioning, new therapeutic approaches are, currently, underway. These new treatments find their theoretical and technical core in the non-verbal exchanges and on the embodied level of intersubjectivity that requires theoretical and clinical modifications of the psychoanalytic concepts of transference and enactment.
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