Prof Fatima Caropreso
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Fátima Caropreso is a psychologist with a Ph.D. in philosophy. She is a full professor in the Department of Psychology and the Graduate Program in Psychology at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (Brazil). She is also a visiting fellow in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex. Her main area of expertise is the history and epistemology of psychoanalysis. Her current research project on the work of psychoanalyst Judith Kestenberg is funded by Brazil's National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. Some of her main publications are "Life and Death in Freudian Metapsychology: A reappraisal of the second instinctual dualism" (International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2009, co-authored by Richard Simanke), "The death instinct and the mental dimension beyond the pleasure principle in the works of Spielrein and Freud" (International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2017), "Sabina Spielrein's Theory of the Origin and Development of Language" (International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2020), Barbara Low and Sabina Spielrein: Misrepresentations of Their Works in the History of Psychoanalysis (American Imago, 2022, co-authored by Richard Simanke), Death Instinct and Mental Conflict in Sabina Spielrein’s Early Work (American Imago, 2025), The Research Trajectory of Judith Kestenberg: From the Study of Movements to Research with Child Victims of the Holocaust (S:I.M.O.N. - Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation, 2024).
Publications
Journal articles (25)
Caropreso, F., Sabina Spielrein e Jean Piaget: uma história a ser resgatada. Psicologia USP. 36
Caropreso, F., A pulsão de morte na perspectiva de Otto Kernberg. Revista Latinoamericana de Psicopatologia Fundamental. 25 (3), 666-687
Caropreso, F., Inconsciente, cérebro e consciência: reflexão sobre os fundamentos da metapsicologia freudiana. Scientiae Studia. 7 (2), 271-282
Araujo, SDF., Caropreso, FS., Simanke, RT. and Castañon, GA., The Wilhelm Wundt Center and the first graduate program for the history and philosophy of psychology in Brazil: A brief report.. History of Psychology. 16 (3), 222-224
Caropreso, F., A esquizofrenia e a criação artística segundo Sabina Spielrein. Ágora: Estudos em Teoria Psicanalítica. 21 (2), 266-276
Caropreso, F., (2025). Book Review: Early woman psychoanalysts: History, biography, and contemporary relevance NaszkowskaK. (Ed.) (2024). Early woman psychoanalysts: History, biography, and contemporary relevance . Routledge. 360 pp. £25.59 (paperback). ISBN 978-1-032-59535-19. £104.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-032-59693-8. £25.59 (e-book). ISBN: 978-1-003-45584-4. Psychology of Women Quarterly. 49 (1), 144-145
Caropreso, F., (2024). The reception of psychoanalysis in Piaget’s early work. Cadernos de História da Educação
Caropreso, F., (2024). Death Instinct and Mental Conflict in Sabina Spielrein’s Early Work (1911–1912). American Imago. 81 (4), 501-521
Caropreso, F., (2024). The Research Trajectory of Judith Kestenberg: From the Study of Movements to Research with Child Victims of the Holocaust. S.I.M.O.N.:Shoah. Intervention. Methods. Documentation. 11 (1), 67-90
Caropreso, F. and Simanke, R., (2023). Le problème de l’attention dans l’Esquisse d’une Psychologie de Freud. Critical Hermeneutics
Caropreso, F. and Simanke, RT., (2022). Barbara Low and Sabina Spielrein: Misrepresentations of Their Works in the History of Psychoanalysis. American Imago. 79 (2), 169-195
Caropreso, F., (2021). Subliminal thought according to Sabina Spielrein's psychoanalytic theory. Psicologia Clinica
Caropreso, F., (2020). Sabina Spielrein’s theory of the origin and development of language. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 101 (4), 706-723
Caropreso, F., (2019). Sabina Spielrein’s theoretical views in her letter to Carl Gustav Jung (1917-1918). Psicologia USP
Caropreso, F., (2019). Knowledge and sense of reality in Sandor Ferenczi's thought. Psicologia em Estudo
Caropreso, F., (2018). Pulsiunea de moarte si dimensiunea mentala dincolo de principual placerie in lucrarile lui Spielrein si Freud.. Anuarul Roman de Pchanaliza Internationala
Caropreso, F., (2017). El instinto de muerte y la dimensión mental más allá del principio de placer en los trabajos de Spielrein y Freud. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (en español). 3 (6), 1208-1232
Caropreso, F., (2017). The death instinct and the mental dimension beyond the pleasure principle in the works of Spielrein and Freud. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 98 (6), 1741-1762
Caropreso, F., (2016). The death drive according to Sabina Spielrein. Psicologia USP
Caropreso, F. and Simanke, RT., (2013). Repressão e inconsciente no desenvolvimento da metapsicologia freudiana. Ágora: Estudos em Teoria Psicanalítica. 16 (2), 201-216
Caropreso, F. and Simanke, RT., (2008). Uma reconstituição da estratégia freudiana para a justificação do inconsciente. Ágora: Estudos em Teoria Psicanalítica. 11 (1), 31-51
Caropreso, F. and Simanke, RT., (2008). Life and death in Freudian metxapsychology: A reappraisal of the second instinctual dualism. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 89 (5), 977-992
Caropreso, F. and Simanke, RT., (2006). Compulsão à repetição: um retorno às origens da metapsicologia freudiana. Ágora: Estudos em Teoria Psicanalítica. 9 (2), 207-224
Caropreso, F., (2003). O conceito freudiano de representação em "Sobre a concepção das afasias". Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto). 13 (25), 13-26
Caropreso, F., (2001). Pensamento, linguagem e consciência nos textos iniciais de Freud. Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto). 11 (20), 29-38
Book chapters (2)
Caropreso, F., (2021). Sabina Spielrein ın Dilin Kökeni ve Gelişimine Dair. Editors: Tanık Sivri, M., . Instanbul Belgi Üniversitesi Yayinlari
Caropreso, F. and Simanke, R., (2011). Life and death in the Freudian metapsychology: A reappraisal of the second instinctual dualism. In: On Freud´s Beyond the Pleasure Principle. Editors: Akhtar, S. and O'Neil, MK., . Karnac