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Il fondamento epistemologico della psicoanalisi freudiana nei casi clinici del 1895
2019
Nel rivolgere lo sguardo all’intera produzione di Sigmund Freud, in primo luogo la memoria storica suggerisce di prestare attenzione al contenuto de L’interpretazione dei sogni (del 1899) e di Al di là del principio di piacere (del 1920). Il testo di queste due opere denota l’evoluzione epistemologica della ricerca svolta dal padre della psicoanalisi, sino a giungere alle opere della maturità. I concetti di «isteria», «ipnosi» e «metodo catartico » consentono di riscontrare l’assunzione definitiva del metodo maieutico, esposto negli scritti della maturità e degli ultimi anni. Mi riferisco in particolare, oltre a La negazione (del 1925), soprattutto a Analisi terminabile e interminabile e Co…
Sogno e medicina nell’Asclepieo di Pergamo
2009
The article discusses the main aspects of the onirical therapy in Greek theurgical medicine, practised, as well known, in Asclepius' temples all over Greek territor ies. Iamata, written sources and chronicles fournish reliable testimonies of activities performed in the sacred structures, most of which concerning the reading and interpretations of dreams. A privileged witness of these practices is Aelius Aristides, in the Ieroi Logoi describing the particular link connecting his psychological and metaphorical diseases to the divine power of Asclepius, revealing his healing terrific capacitis mainly through therapeutic dreams
Sogni erotici e seme femminile nella antica medicina greca
2009
This paper analyses passages of the Hippocratic Corpus, of Aristotle and Galen about oneirogmòs, spermatic emission during sleep, referring specifically to women. Into the Hippocratic texts there is only one gynaecological case among many cases about males: for them this nocturnal emission is symptom of dangerous illness and De genitura gives a causal explanation of such phaenomenon. Instead, in Aristotle and Galen erotic dream is evidence for or against emission of female seed and female contribution to generation. As the argument of Historia animalium book X shows clear theoretical differences from that of De generatione animalium, the topic of erotic dream also concerns issues of authent…
On Computational Models of Interconnected Perception, Reasoning, and Action — in Dream Worlds
2023
We distinguish between real versus unreal worlds, and include in the latter category fictional worlds and — perhaps the hardest type of unreal world to plumb — dream worlds. Dream worlds, from the standpoint of building computational cognitive models, present a number of acute challenges in at least three areas of human mentation that are for us as AI researchers and computational cognitive scientists deeply interconnected; these areas are: perception, reasoning, and action. We are attempting to specifically answer three tough questions, one in each of these three areas; the answers (for us) must be based upon robust computational models that are both theoretically well-founded, and brought…
Tagesreste e Simulacra: sogni e sogni erotici in Lucrezio
2017
Secondo la dottrina epicurea che nega ai sogni di ogni potere profetico, legandoli invece a ciò che è successo durante il giorno, Lucrezio teorizza e dimostra la stretta connessione tra «Tagesreste», «simulacra» ed esperienza onirica. Particolarmente degna di nota è la sezione dedicata ai sogni erotici (IV 1030-1057), in cui il poeta utilizza la letteratura medica greca tra Ippocrate e Erofilo di Calcedonia. Alcuni passaggi, fino ad ora non considerati, anche se accompagnati dall’evidenza di testi tardo-antichi, spiegano il background scientifico su cui si colloca il passo lucreziano dedicato alla fisiologia dei sogni erotici. In accordance with the Epicurean doctrine which denies the dream…
Dreams and Trauma Changes in the Manifest Dreams in Psychoanalytic Treatments - A Psychoanalytic Outcome Measure.
2021
Although psychoanalysts are interested in symptom reduction as an outcome, they are looking for instruments to measure sustaining changes in the unconscious mental functioning. In this article it is discussed that conceptually well-founded transformation of manifest dreams analyzed with precise empirical methods could be considered as a promising indicator for such therapeutic changes. We are summarizing a dream generation model by Moser and von Zeppelin which has integrated a large interdisciplinary knowledge base of contemporary dream and sleep research. Based on this model the authors have developed a valid and reliable coding system for analyzing manifest dreams, the Zurich Dream Proces…
Why are dreams interesting for philosophers? The example of minimal phenomenal selfhood, plus an agenda for future research1
2013
This metatheoretical paper develops a list of new research targets by exploring particularly promising interdisciplinary contact points between empirical dream research and philosophy of mind. The central example is the MPS-problem. It is constituted by the epistemic goal of conceptually isolating and empirically grounding the phenomenal property of “minimal phenomenal selfhood,” which refers to the simplest form of self-consciousness. In order to precisely describe MPS, one must focus on those conditions that are not only causally enabling, but strictly necessary to bring it into existence. This contribution argues that research on bodiless dreams, asomatic out-of-body experiences, and ful…
Why are dreams interesting for philosophers? The example of minimal phenomenal selfhood, plus an agenda for future research.
2013
This metatheoretical paper develops a list of new research targets by exploring particularly promising interdisciplinary contact points between empirical dream research and philosophy of mind. The central example is the MPS-problem. It is constituted by the epistemic goal of conceptually isolating and empirically grounding the phenomenal property of “minimal phenomenal selfhood,” which refers to the simplest form of self-consciousness. In order to precisely describe MPS, one must focus on those conditions that are not only causally enabling, but strictly necessary to bring it into existence. This contribution argues that research on bodiless dreams, asomatic out-of-body experiences, and ful…