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The Schreber case: the discret charm of the paranoic solution
No full textThe author revisits Schreber’s Case considering the scientific and historical back ground context and expecially the development of the first group of Freud’s followers. The concept of inconscious homosexuality is examinated and compared to rejection of feminine. Moreover delirium is considered an attempt at making self-containing. In conclusion, the author suggests some considerations about the connection between paranoic functioning and psychoanalytical group functioning
On primal repression.
No full textThe Author considers the concept of Primal Repression and examines its importance in the psychic apparatus formation. At first he discusses about some choices made in the translation of the most famous freudian definition of this concept, in particular about the instinctual ideational representative and about the concept of fixation of instinctual excitement, underlining the pre-representative nature of instinctual representative. Then he considers the concept of fixation not only as a metapsychological element but also as a factor in the objectual-relation model. Presenting clinical material in which there is an excess of fixation, the Author considers these freudian metapsychological concepts and relates them with the glance and mirroring process, both in primary relationship and in analytical relation
Inevitable errors» with the «destructive» patient and mistaking the flowering shrub odor
No full textWith increasing frequency, clinical reports tell of «destructive» patients whose destruc tiveness is the cause of a paralysis in the analytic process. Some of the psychoanalytic literature, interweaving the concept of the destructive drive with that of the death drive, confers an inevitable mandate of non-transformability in such clinical situations. The author, understanding destructiveness as a drive discharge issue in the absence of symbolic thinking, and drawing on clinical material, theorizes that unprocessed life drives play a central role in the production of aggression that is acted out in the session. He maintains, therefore, that one can play with those drive elements, starting from the «inevitable errors» that are produced in a transference-countertransference dimension that is pervaded by excessive projective identifications. Analysis of the countertransference, the analyst’s mental framework, and the maintenance of the analytic method are the other crucial elements with which – starting from the calm recognition of so-called «errors» – even acted-out aggression, repetition compulsion, or destructiveness can be put into a historical context, and subjectivization and thinkability can be achieved. © 2016, Raffaello Cortina Editore. All rights reserved
IL LIBERALISMO FORTE. PER UN'ETICA PUBBLICA PERFEZIONISTA
No full text1. This book is aimed to discuss systematically liberal-perfectionist theory, offering a critical
reading of some liberal theories with perfectionist elements, such as Hurka and Raz. The former is
tackled in several places, while we devote a whole chapter (chap. 2) to Raz’s perfectionism because
of its importance in contemporary debate on perfectionism. Raz, as other contemporary liberal
theorists such as Griffin, Dworkin and Finnis, tries to overcome Rawls’s ‘thin theory of the good’,
taken as a weak point of liberal theory.
2. The most meaningful aspect of this inquiry derives from the proposal of a particular perfectionist
theory, defined agency goods perfectionism or good character perfectionism (chapters 1, 4). This
theory means to preserve the critical potential which characterizes perfectionism against
subjectivist conceptions of wellbeing but also to respect the liberal requirement of the ‘agent’s
endorsement’: any value contributes to the agent’s wellbeing only if she accepts it. It is an attempt
to offer guide-lines for individual conduct, starting from the modern presupposition of an agent
who freely decides the goals to pursue in her own life. The main feature of agency goods is that of
being modes of choosing, such as courage, generosity, justice, temperance, etc., through which we
choose in basic spheres of human experience. We hold that only these modes of choosing can be
promoted by the state, while goals remain exclusive domain of the agent.
3. Agency goods perfectionism derives from an interpretation of Aristotle’s ethics, especially the
concepts of eudaimonia and the virtues (chap. 3). These are interpreted as a ‘regulative ideal of the
good life’ rather than as a substantial theory. The virtues and the supreme good (eudaimonia) are
called to regulate the individual pursuit of valuable goals which remain within the agent’s
subjective domain. This interpretation of Aristotle’s ethics lends itself to a parallel with Kant’s
ethics, an author that liberals often align in opposition to Aristotle. Notwithstanding this traditional
reading, we can count on a relevant exegetical literature to which we refer to found such a parallel.
Kant is qualified as a perfectionist on the grounds of a reading of his concept of the supreme good
(the good will) and of the ‘duties of virtue’ that are partly directed to the agent’s perfection. The
‘non deontological’ interpretation of Kant’s ethics draws a parallel between his main claims and
Aristotle’s, though keeping their specific differences, and is founded on a reading of Kant’s ethical
works beyond the Groundwork.
4. The leading thread of this thesis – agency goods perfectionism, grounded on a parallel
interpretation of Aristotle’s and Kant’s ethics – takes on a new ally in the second part devoted to
political theory: the republican claim on the importance of political participation for ‘good
citizenship’. We hold that ‘citizenship’ is the key concept of a political theory which brings the
member of a political community close to her political institutions. We try to sketch a political
figure which takes from republicanism a concern for the well-functioning of political institutions
and the common good and from perfectionism a concern for the good life of citizens as a part of the
agent’s good life. Civic perfectionism emphasizes the exercise of civic virtues as political
dimensions of agency goods. In this perspective the good citizen cannot just live in a just political
community a la Rawls but has to be concerned with the good life of his fellow-citizens. The ideas
of freedom and equality, public duties and civic virtues are re-formulated along this interpretation
in chapter 5.
Finally in chapter 6, we try to draw some applicative consequence of civic perfectionism in areas
where public intervention is usually controversial, such as education, sexual morality and
multiculturalism
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No full textMicrowave ablation for treatment of recurrent bleeding adrenal adenoma in a dog: a treatment potentially translational in human
No full textThe Lyceum Women's Club of Madrid in the United States: The Outreach Work of the Hispanist Shirley Mangini
No full textThe Lyceum Women's Club is the first organized form of women association composed of women interested in culture in Spain. This was developed in Madrid between 1926 and 1939, with the purpose of defending the civil rights of women, promoting their cultural, educational and professional development. The Music Section, chaired by Ela Fernández Arbós and then by María Rodrigo, programmed multiple concerts, parties and conferences that contributed to the cultural development of the time. Since its foundation, the Lyceum of Madrid maintained a close relationship with other Spanish and foreign women cultural associations, maintaining a special link with the United States. In addition, a lot of exchange activities were planned with the aim of getting to know other cultures in Spain and to disseminate the work of the members of the Madrid Lyceum abroad./nDue to the early disappearance of the club in 1939 there are very few works concerning this institution. It is curious that, despite the few works done by Spanish researchers, the American hispanist Shirley Mangini, a professor at California State University, has conducted one of the most in-depth investigations, recovering the work of these women and contributing to their dissemination in the United States./nThe main objective of this work is, therefore, to analyze the work of dissemination of the Lyceum Women's Club of Madrid in the United States by the hispanist Shirley Mangini. The methodology is based on qualitative techniques of the historical method, mainly on the systematic collection of data; being the primary source all the research published by this author and the secondary source works concerning her and her investigations. It is a mainly documentary work based on a study of these previous investigations, whose purpose is to analyze and demonstrate the importance of Mangini's research and dissemination work on the Lyceum of Madrid and to relate it to the few musicological studies that have been carried out in Spain on this subject.El Lyceum Club Femenino es la primera forma organizada de asociacionismo femenino integrada por mujeres interesadas en la cultura en España. Este se desarrolló en Madrid entre 1926 y 1939, con el objetivo de defender los derechos civiles de la mujer, promoviendo el desarrollo cultural, educativo y profesional de estas. Desde la Sección de Música, presidida por Ela Fernández Arbós y después por María Rodrigo, se programaron múltiples conciertos, fiestas y conferencias que contribuyeron al desarrollo cultural de la época. Desde su fundación, el Lyceum de Madrid mantuvo una estrecha relación con otras asociaciones culturales femeninas españolas y de otros países, manteniendo un especial vínculo con los Estados Unidos. Se programaron, además, múltiples actividades de intercambio con el objetivo conocer en España otras culturas y de difundir la labor de las socias del Lyceum madrileño en el exterior./nDebido a la temprana desaparición del club en 1939 son muy escasos los trabajos referentes a esta institución. Resulta curioso que, pese a los pocos trabajos realizados por investigadores españoles, la hispanista estadounidense Shirley Mangini, profesora en la California State University, haya realizado una de las investigaciones más profundas, recuperando el trabajo de estas mujeres y contribuyendo a su difusión en los Estados Unidos./nEl objetivo principal de este trabajo es, por lo tanto, analizar la labor de difusión del Lyceum Club Femenino de Madrid en los Estados Unidos por parte de la hispanista Shirley Mangini. La metodología se basa en técnicas cualitativas del método histórico, principalmente en la recopilación sistemática de datos, siendo la fuente primaria todas las investigaciones publicadas de esta autora y la fuente secundaria los trabajos referentes a ella y a sus investigaciones. Se trata de un trabajo fundamentalmente documental basado en un estudio de estas investigaciones previas, cuyo fin es analizar y demostrar la importancia del trabajo de investigación y divulgación de Mangini acerca del Lyceum de Madrid y relacionarlo con los escasos estudios musicológicos que se han realizado en España sobre este
