2023 Programme
Event #9 BIS
Vittorio Lingiardi
Dreams as neuro-wonder
‘Every dream’ – Freud wrote more than a century ago – ‘has a navel through which it is linked to the unknown’. Starting from this mysterious and neuro-wonderful navel, Vittorio Lingiardi takes us on a dreamlike journey suspended between myth, mind, and brain. Because ‘truth does not lie in a single dream, but in several dreams’. We will have nightmares, Homeric visions, and lucid dreams; we will investigate the rapid dances of eye movements and the troubled dreams of lockdown; consciousness and the unconscious; we will dream with cinema and with poetry.
Vittorio Lingiardi, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, is Full Professor of Dynamic Psychology at Sapienza University of Rome and Senior Research Fellow at Sapienza’s School for Advanced Studies (SSAS). He is past president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research – Italy Area Group. In 2018, he received the Cesare Musatti Prize from the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, followed by the Research Award from the Society for Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association in 2020, and the Sigourney Award in 2023. His publications include Mindscapes (Cortina, 2017), Diagnosi e destino (Einaudi, 2018), Arcipelago N. Variazioni sul narcisismo (Einaudi, 2021), L’ombelico del sogno (Einaudi, 2023), and Corpo, umano (Einaudi, 2024; winner of the Premio Bagutta). He is a regular contributor to Il Venerdì di Repubblica, where he writes the weekly column Psycho, as well as to la Repubblica, la Stampa, and the Sunday culture section of Il Sole 24 Ore.
ph. credits: Anna Nadalig
Event #15
Martina Mazzotta
Wunderkammer: art, science, wonder. From the Renaissance until the present day
Event #20Approfonditamente
Marianna Aprile, Maurizio Careddu, Enrico Casale, Cristiana Farina, Gianluca Guida
Wonder inside: stories of art and beauty from Italian prisons
