2012 Programme
Event #10
Giuseppe Civitarese
Get out your colors! Dreaming as the mind’s poetic function
Freud thought that dreams protect sleep as they let repressed childhood wishes surface and they partly satisfy them. Today we view dreaming as the mind’s ability to attach personal meaning to experience. “Personal” means that when what we are experiencing seems true and real, it is invariably tinged with emotion. Contemporary psychoanalysis puts emotions back at the center and assumes aesthetic experiences as a model of what is truest in what happens in analysis. W. Bion said: “Get out your colors!” to invite analysts to draw on their own artistic abilities to paint their patients’ emotion and help them live a more authentic existence. Like poetry, dreams reinstate the mind in the body; they do not conceal meaning, they create it. Conversely, art is the artist’s dream of our most secret fears, or, as Rilke said, of the horror we can think of.
is a psychiatrist, holds a Ph.D. in Psychiatry and Relational Sciences. As a psychoanalyst, he belongs to SPI-Società Psicoanalitica Italiana, APA- American Psychological Association, and IPA-International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). He lives and works in Pavia. He has written extensively on psychiatry and psychoanalysis in leading Italian and international publications. His books include: L’intima stanza. Teoria e tecnica del campo analitico (Borla, 2008); La violenza delle emozioni. Bion e la psicoanalisi postbioniana (Raffaello Cortina, 2011); Perdere la testa. Abiezione, conflitto estetico e critica psicoanalitica (with Sara Boffito, Francesco Capello, Clinamen, 2012). He has co-authored Sognare l’analisi. Sviluppi clinici del pensiero di Wilfred R. Bion (Bollati Boringhieri, 2007); Psicoanalisi in giallo (Raffaello Cortina, 2011). He has edited
L’ipocondria e il dubbio. L’approccio psicoanalitico (with V. E. Morpurgo, Franco Angeli, 2011).
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
