Summary:
The author critiques the long Western tradition of exalting physical and mental pain as privileged means towards learning the essential truths. This idealization of pain, sorrow, and asceticism …
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The psychotherapy process of a 28-years-old woman, Anna, is reported. The patient was referred to psychological consultation from the gynecologist with a diagnosis of primary …
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Comments on “ A Case of Vaginismus ”
Paolo Migone (Parma)
Porcelli’s clinical account allows us to formulate specific hypotheses on the psychological dynamics, in all likelihood …
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[French text below]
A CONVERSATION BETWEEN JEAN-LUC NANCY
AND SERGIO BENVENUTO
THE SACRED AND MONOTHEISMS
Sergio Benvenuto – In recent years, the West has been stage …
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To Paola Carola
«I should like to be Alcibiades for one day and one night, and then die!»
W. Goethe, from a letter to Herder, July 1772.
Summary
In Civilization and its Discontents (1930), Freud initially uses the image of the city of Rome in several historical periods (“Roma Quadrata,” “Septimontium,” the Rome …
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On the Verge
It was my friend Sergio Benvenuto who first suggested about the notion of homeland. My initial reaction was that I would …
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When a happily married man and woman take advantage of the romantic atmosphere of Valentine’s day to spice up their sex-life with the help of a tantalizingly ticklish plumed feather, …
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