PROGRAMME >> EVENT #11  

saturday aug. 30.time 11.30.Chiostro San Francesco - 3,00
Simona  Argentieri - Creativeness, ambiguity, delusion

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Ambiguity, delusion, bad faith, deception, ambivalence... all these words and attitudes are quite widespread, both on a personal and on a social level. Cocteau said that “Theatre is delusion” and Freud maintained that ambiguity plays a crucial role in the joke, but if it’s true that doubt is the source of philosophical and scientific research, it is also undeniable that absence of choice and bad faith have a neurotic origin, and furthermore become often a social attitude. It’s a way of gradually deceiving ourselves and our world, until we mix up ambiguity and normality.

Simona  Argentieri
is training analyst of the International Psychoanalytical Association and of the Associazione Italiana di Psicoanalisi. Her main scientific interests focus on the area of precocious mental processes, the relation between body and mind, and between art and psychoanalysis. She contributes to L’espresso, Micromega, Radio 3 Rai and Mente e Cervello; she has published several psychoanalytical, cultural and literary essays, in Italy and abroad: Il padre materno (Meltemi, 1999); La babele dell’inconscio, with J. Amati and J. Canestri (Raffaello Cortina, 2003); Freud e l’arte, with Peter Gay (Il pensiero scientifico, 2005); L’ambiguità (Einaudi, 2008).