Please note that this event has been postponed till 2021.

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to the 33rd conference of the EPF, which will take place in Vienna from April 2nd to 5th 2020 and where we will be welcomed by both the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society (WPV) and the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association (WAP).

For our Conference, we have chosen the title ‘Realities’ because our present time with its new technological achievements has changed and intensified the age-old question of the nature of being and reality. Of course, as psychoanalysts we are mainly concerned with psychic reality, following a concept that Freud had already begun to develop in 1895[i] with his distinction between "thought-reality" and "external reality" which had led him to formulate: “Thus thought accompanied by a cathexis of the indications of thought-reality or of the indications of speech is the highest, securest form of cognitive thought-process.”