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acquisition, the form of knowledge production, and the form of the knowledge produced — that is, the form of its empiria (source of research), of the particular universe that it proposes. Psychoanalytic empiria is, above all, the psychoanalytic clinical work and psychoanalytic form of production of knowledge is psychoanalytic interpretation. Seeking to determine the protean operation of psychoanalytic interpretation, Hermann cautions that interpretation is not merely the equivalent of translation, and also, that psychoanalytic interpretation possesses an extreme power of suggestion over not only the patient, but also the analyst. Multiple Fields Theory conceives of interpretation as a process that produces the opening of the psyche to new meanings that were formerly impeded. From this perspective, the unconscious is no more than the set of emotional rules that, at each moment of analysis, drastically limit the meanings of discourse to the very subject the patient is trying to develop—a field of psychic forces that seeks to exclude most of its emotional connotations. Field here refers the Freudian unconscious turned inside out, i.e., not quite resistance, but rather production of the conventional meaning. In the rupture of a field by the psychoanalytic method, the analyst allows other emotional meanings to arise, which, in turn, she or he takes into consideration. Fabio Herrmann’s theoretical contribution - the Multiple Fields Theory - offers itself as an original critical heuristic thought particularly in Brazil. After Herrmann’s death in 2006, it continued to inspire further developments in the thinking of Leda Herrmann (2007, 2017), Fernanda Sofio (2014, 2015), and Luciana Saddi (2017). Among examples of such further developments are investigations of the position of psychoanalytic method in relation to scientific methodology overall (Taffarel 2005). One of the themes developed most recently is the juxtaposition between the ‘Compulsion of Destiny’ (Freud 1920, p. 23) in Freud’s opus and ‘Dialogical Destiny’ in Hermann’s thought (Guimarães 2018). (See also entries THE UNCONSCIOUS, OBJECT RELATIONS THEORIES, TRANSFERENCE, COUNTERTRANSFERENCE, CONTAINMENT, INTERSUBJECTIVITY and ENACTMENT) II. D. PSYCHOANALYTIC FIELD THEORY AND CONCEPTS IN EUROPE The field concept, developed by Madeleine and Willy Baranger , remained relatively unknown in Europe until the works of the Latin American colleagues were translated. However, thanks to two IPA congresses, Madrid in 1983 and Amsterdam in 1993, and the subsequent translations of their texts into French, Italian and English, their thoughts have gradually made way into the wider psychoanalytic community. The concept thus found a wide audience in Italy, to a lesser extent in France and Belgium. Of course, the fact that both Willy and Madeleine Baranger are of French origin facilitated the ties that continued after their departure to Argentina and Uruguay. Both had studied philosophy in Toulouse and Paris before leaving France in 1946.
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