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The `Mafia Feeling': A Transcultural Theme of Sicily
Franco Di Mariasubject
050103 clinical psychologyPsychoanalysisSocial PsychologyTranspersonalmedia_common.quotation_subject05 social sciences050108 psychoanalysisSense of belongingCohesion (linguistics)Psychiatry and Mental healthClinical PsychologyFeeling0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesSociologymedia_commondescription
In this article, the Mafia feeling is analysed as an anthropological and cultural theme which through the family establishes personal and individual identity (in the sense of identicalness) which needs set certainties. The presence of a code of certainties suggests the hypothesis that the Mafia feeling is structured on a specific cultural transpersonal level which guarantees the survival, the cohesion and the sense of belonging to the members of a subculture. It is argued that, from the Group-analytic standpoint the Mafia feeling can be considered as a pre-thoughtful and dogmatic thinking which, beginning from a normal degree of dogmatism (adaptive dogmatism), flows through a matrix entirely saturated with meaning into a pathological dogmatism.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997-09-01 | Group Analysis |