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After an introduction to this 1964 talk, some considerations on the logic of interpretation in psychoanalysis and in clinical work are made. Among other things, the role of intuition and the ability of making predictions in terms of probability are discussed, as well as the relationship between clinical and empirical research. (This paper is the transcription of the audiorecording of a talk given at the Fourth training course of the "Milan Group for the Advancement of Psychotherapy" - which since the 1970s took the name of Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane - entitled "Theoretical problems and clinical cases", held in Milan on May 1-4, 1964; after the paper the discussion that followed this talk is published, with interventions by Silvano Arieti, Enzo Codignola, Franco Fornari, Luigi Frighi, Pier Francesco Galli, Mario Moreno, Diego Napolitani, and Enzo Spaltro). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents some research hypotheses on the Italian coercive prevention apparatus through the sociological qualitative analysis of a sample of special surveillance orders, providing the theoretical keys to analyse that apparatus and the specific measures taken in consideration. This is a discretely theoretically deepened field of research, but one that proves, at least in Italy, to be little accessible to empirical socio-legal research. The aim is to hypothesize the functions and potential effects of this institutional intervention. The reflection leads to bring back to the center concepts and categories that only seemingly belong to the past and indeed innervate control practices, especially preventive ones. I refer to the policies of social defense and social alarm, aimed at the continuous identification between deviance and threat, disorder and social danger. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]