The AΓΡΑ Publications inaugurate the psychoanalytic series “ROUS,” led by MARILIA EISENSTEIN-AVEROFF, PANOS ALOUPIS, and GIORGOS STATHOPOULOS. The series will include, in addition to Notebooks, essays by psychoanalysts, with a central theme concerning the inseparable relationships between mind and body and the dual instinctual nature of humans. Each Notebook will contain a classic text on these topics, an introduction by an expert on the proposed author, and an afterword by a guest writer, who is inspired by the central text.

The first Notebook presents the famous text by PIERRE FÉDIDA “WHERE DOES THE HUMAN BODY BEGIN?”. In this essay, the psychoanalyst and teacher Pierre Fedida guides us through the origins of psychoanalysis and takes us into its realm, through fruitful meetings and dialogues with colleagues and people from the arts, philosophy, and literature. “The ‘beastly’ organ of ‘piercing cries’ and unrestrained pleasure, such is the human mouth... Behind the lying patient, the opening of the mouth of discourse is an opening to the origin of the body, which it will no longer be possible to definitively say where it begins.”

With this text, we come into contact with valuable clinical thought, where the psychoanalytic process, thanks to spoken language, allows access to the voice of a body that perpetually oscillates between the loss of depression and the obliteration of melancholy. The psychoanalyst, like every person, because they live and think, confronts daily the echo of death.

Short biographies of the scientific coordinators of the series “ROUS”

Marilia Eisenstein-Averoff is a teaching psychoanalyst from the French Psychoanalytical Society of Paris and the Greek Psychoanalytical 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, and co-founder of the psychosomatic journal. 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 concerning psychosomatics, hypochondria, masochism, and transference.

Panos Aloupis is a psychiatrist, PhD in psychology from University 7 in Paris, with teaching work in the Chair of Psychopathology and Psychoanalysis at University 7, a member of the French Psychoanalytical Society of Paris, and corresponding member of the Greek Society. He participates in the editorial work of French psychoanalysis and psychosomatics journals. He has written articles and contributed to Greek and international journals and books, primarily on themes related to the body, the object, and melancholy.

Giorgos Stathopoulos is a psychologist, PhD from Paris 7 University. He has written 2 books: “Reinvesting the Body. The Hypochondriacal Solution to Cancer” and “Freud, Fliss and Paranoia,” published by Nisos. He edited and translated into Greek the book by Michel de M’Uzan titled “At the Border of Life and Death,” published by Meta, and has published articles in Greek and Francophone psychoanalysis journals, focusing mainly on hypochondria and therapeutic work with oncological patients.