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Commentary on the clinical case presented in: Giorgio is between the bars

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Published: 29 August 2025
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In On Narcissism: An Introduction, Freud (1914) described the flow of libido as a current that can be blocked or diverted on its path toward an object. When this energy encounters an obstacle, a frustration, or an emotional failure, it changes direction, stagnates, or even regresses. Faced with difficulties, we therefore tend to stop or to regress. [...]

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Commentary on the clinical case presented in: Giorgio is between the bars. (2025). Ricerca Psicoanalitica, 36(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/rp.2025.1048