2012 Program
Event #3
Anna Salvo
Sorrow is like a telescope that helps us look into the distance: creatività and suffering
Sorrow is often thought of as an experience that petrifies, annihilates and paralyzes. Yet sometimes suffering can be an opportunity that helps us open up to see ourselves and others better. For Marcel Proust, sorrow was a sort of optical instrument—a lens—which directed the gaze to unexpected perspectives and unusual horizons. But how is this new perception connected to creativity? Freud already spoke of a “family novel” to describe the tale that we all keep writing and editing as we create our story. The passing of time is marked by an incessant creative process in which the experience of sorrow sometimes opens up new visions before our eyes. Is sorrow there to teach us something? It is not easy to answer, but this can be a starting point to rebuild our story or to create new parts of it.
, a therapist trained in psychotherapy, teaches Dynamic psychology at the University of Calabria. Her books include Depressione e sentimenti (1994), Madri e figlie (2003), I dolori che ci cambiano (2012), published by Mondadori; Corpo a corpo (with G. Buzzatti, Laterza, 1995); Il corpo-parola delle donne (Raffaello Cortina, 1998); Generazione TVB (with T. Iaquinta, il Mulino, 2017).
Event #3
Anna Salvo
Sorrow is like a telescope that helps us look into the distance: creatività and suffering
Event #4
Andrea Moro
I speak, therefore I am Like the starry sky: visions of language across the centuries
Event #28
Mauro Agnoletti, Ilaria Borletti Buitoni
Culture, environment, landscape. For a possible, sustainable future
