Following Pierre Fédida's text "Where Does the Human Body Begin?" and Pierre Marty's text "The Allergic Relationship," the third notebook of the psychoanalytic series "ROUS" is published by Agra Editions, with Marilia Aizenstein-Averoff, Pano Aloupi, and Giorgos Stathopoulos as responsible editors. The series includes, in addition to the Notebooks, essays by psychoanalysts, focusing on the inseparable relationships between soul and body and the dual instinctual nature of humanity. Each Notebook contains a classic text around these themes, an introduction from a connoisseur of the proposed author, and an epilogue from an invited author, who freely inspires themselves from the central text.

"This bodily component of maternal emotion is transmitted from body to body; contact with an emotionally moved body touches your own; a hand that touches you without pleasure does not evoke the same sensation as that of a hand that feels the pleasure of touching you." –P.A.

"There is no body without a shadow, just as there is no psychic body without this story that constitutes its spoken shadow. A protective or threatening shadow, benign or adverse, which protects with an excessively bright light or announces the storm, but, in any case, a necessary shadow, as its loss would lead to the loss of any form of life." –P.A.

Piera Aulagnier, a significant figure in French psychoanalysis, was an tireless teacher and author, sensitive and unyielding in training and transmitting a clinical experience based on the closest possible listening to human speech. She integrated speech into the human journey, which starts from the enigmatic silence of the body, is traced through the inclusion into a life that imprints its stamp as a prepayment, and continues through the work of collective culture, fundamentally influenced by the marks of death and violence.

The active and creative presence of Piera Aulagnier and her continuous participation in the evolution of psychoanalytic theory and practice built a work whose supporting pillars are the body and psychosis. In this direction, the concepts of the primary, the pictogram, or the Ego of speech are invented and utilized, summarizing the approach of a particular human experience. Either psychotic or simply human, in its complexity and timelessness, this experience continually reminds us of the difficulties of structuring a private bodily prehistory with the history of life where the other and others actively and indelibly imprint their coexistence in what we call the soul, the object of study of Freudian metapsychology.

Gerasimos Stefanatos is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, member of the French psychoanalytic society Quatrième Groupe OPLF, co-founder of the journal "Ek ton ysteron" and a member of the editorial board of the psychoanalytic journal "Topique." He directs the "Psychoanalytic" series at Estia Publications. His most recent publications include "Psychoanalysis and Adolescence: Clinical and Theoretical Milestones" (ed.), Estia Press, 2013, and "Constructs of Psychoanalysis: Constructing the Psychoanalyst: Searching for a Healing Truth," Estia Press, 2016.

Cathie Silvestre is a psychoanalyst, founding member, and instructor of the Société psychanalytique de recherche et de formation (SPRF), a former member of IV Groupe, having worked for many years with Piera Aulagnier, Jean-Paul Valabrega, and Nathalie Zaltzman. She has published various articles, primarily in the journal "Topique," dedicated to femininity, motherhood, mental violence, shame, and trauma.

Short biographies of the scientific leaders of the "ROUS" series

Marilia Aizenstein-Averoff is a teaching psychoanalyst of the French Psychoanalytic Society in Paris and the Greek Psychoanalytic Society. She has served as president of the French Society, director of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, and the Institute of Psychosomatics in Paris, editorial member of the French psychoanalysis journal (Revue française de psychanalyse) and co-founder of the journal of psychosomatics (Revue de psychosomatique). She is the representative for Europe of the International Psychoanalytical Association. She has written numerous articles and texts in Greek and international journals and books, mainly around psychosomatics, hypochondria, masochism, and transference. Her biography also includes studies in philosophy, as well as her interest in literature, particularly Japanese literature.

Pano Aloupi is a psychiatrist, Doctor of Psychology at University 7 in Paris, with teaching work in the chair of Psychopathology and Psychoanalysis at University 7, a member of the French Psychoanalytic Society in Paris, and an associated member of the Greek Society. He participates in the editing of the French psychoanalysis journal and the French psychosomatics journal. He has written articles and contributed studies to Greek and international journals and books, mainly focusing on the body, the object, and melancholy. He has translated Freud, Winnicott, and Kristeva into Greek and participated in the translation of the "Glossary of Psychoanalysis."

Giorgos Stathopoulos is a psychologist, Doctor of University 7 in Paris. He has written the books: "Re-investing the Body: The Hypochondriacal Solution to Cancer" and "Freud, Flis, and Paranoia," published by Nisos. He edited and translated into Greek Michel de M’Uzan's book titled "On the Borders of Life and Death," published by Meta, and has published articles in Greek and French-speaking psychoanalysis journals, focusing mainly on hypochondria and therapeutic work with oncology patients.