Truth and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis explores the intersection of the two concepts within a Bionian framework. Civitarese maps out the unconscious in psychoanalysis, and focuses on the differences between the Freudian, Kleinian, Bionian and Lacanian schools of thought, as well as drawing on findings from neuroscience.

Giuseppe Civitarese is a training and supervising analyst in the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI), and a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA). He lives in Pavia, Italy. He has published several books including the Routledge titles The Intimate Room (2010) and The Violence of Emotions (2012).

Acknowledgments. Foreword. Introduction. 1 The Inaccessible Unconscious and Reverie as a Path of Figurability. 2 Poetry of Dream and Depersonalization. 3 Embodied Field and Somatic Reverie. 4 Transformations in Hallucinosis and the Receptivity of the Analyst. 5 The un/conscious as a psychoanalytic function of personality. 6 Beneath, behind or inside? The un/conscious in clinical work. 7 Giving Body to the Mind: a comparison between Freud's and Bion's metapsychologies. 8 The Grid and the truth drive. 9 Intermediarity as an epistemological paradigm in psychoanalysis. 10 Bion's Evidence and his theoretical style. Postface