Daniel Stern: research and psychoanalysis, ideas for a critical rethink

The author started from the concept of the innate highlighted in number three of Psychoanalytic Research on Stern's work and deepened the use of the concept within the diatribe between psychoanalysis and research, highlighting how and why it has found fertile ground in the psychoanalytic field. He highlighted how much Stern and infant research have shaken psychoanalytical certainties in the foundations with infant observation. Finally, he underlined that a metanoia is in progress, an epistemic and methodological change that pushes us to question ourselves on the meaning and use of each specific discipline in order to get out of easy universalism and to have a look more and more turned to the particular, to the contextual and to the process that can help to avoid easy individualisms.