Nebbiosi’s Third: A Discussion of Gianni Nebbiosi’s “The Smell of Paper”

Abstract

Gianni Nebbiosi’s clinical paper is discussed as music to the hammer of the commentator’s ear. Three overlapping points are presented. The first centers on Nebbiosi’s tone of voice with his analysand Teresa. The second point is about music and psychoanalysis. The final point is about Nebbiosi’s free association to Beethoven’s Third Symphony.

Notes

¹ I admit to a some benign envy of Nebbiosi’s ability to articulate this so well with his typical clinical élan.

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Spyros D. Orfanos

Spyros D. Orfanos, Ph.D., ABPP, is the Clinic Director of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Queens College, CUNY. He is past president of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and former President of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological Association (1999). Currently the founding chair of the Humanities and Psychoanalysis Committee of the Division (39), he is also the producer of four song and recordings: Enchanted Night in Greek, Ay Amor in Spanish, Mauthausen in Hebrew, and Essentially Ella in English.