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Dis-Identity: New Forms of Identity and Psychopathology—Socioanthropological Changes and Self-Development
2014
The passage from modernity to postmodernity deeply upset the group dimension, and, consequently, personal identity itself. Transformations involving the entire planet, socioanthropological changes our society had to cope with, are producing a change in the dynamics of identity formation and the appearance of new psychopathological figures. The loss of cohesion of the sense of belonging and the weak internalization process of the elements that form the individual identity (cultural, linguistic, religious traditions, etc.) draw an essentially uncertain and temporary existence. Drawing on some themes of subjectual group analysis theory of personality, the article proposes the concept of dis-id…
Evolutionity – A New Age of Humanity: On the Concept of Human Evolution by Hoene-Wroński
2018
In this article, I present the concept of human evolution by Jozef Hoene-Wronski. I believe that his ideas are still an unexplored resource which can lead us to the better understanding of the evolution of humanity and of our human destiny. Hoene-Wronski has boldly challenged the deterministic picture of the world emerging from modern science and has derived human evolution from the moral and rational development of human beings. I follow closely his discussion of human evolution and describe its seven stages. Further, I argue that the case of human evolution is strongly supported by new scientific theories, especially by quantum theory and the novel perspectives that it opens for humankind…
Nonluoghi
2019
the Non-Places photographed by Michele Di Donato during his travels in different cities of the world. Metropolis that the author decides specifically for depersonalize to ensure that the shots fully reveal the anthropological and iconological suggestion that there is distinguishes
Valiant, vital and virtuous : A time-snap review
2020
A time-snap review – moments captured pictorially – means the creation of multi-layered observation. The enquiring gaze then extends beyond the present moment: to its existential roots. However, it is not a question of presenting an historical list, a collection of topics of various types and periods. Of course, understanding the present also requires knowledge of the people and events of the past. In this way it also becomes possible to study the recurring nature of existence. Can war-related travel also count as cultural travel? Is it possible to talk about war tourism? Presumably, in many countries the answer to this will be positive. It relates to the history of ideas and also to nation…
Tradición católica y ritual festivo: secularización y metamorfosis de lo sagrado
2021
El objetivo del artículo es analizar la relación entre tradición, ritual y proceso de secularización en la modernidad avanzada, a partir de un análisis histórico y etnográfico de las fiestas católicas de Corpus Christi y Semana Santa, además de algunas grandes celebraciones locales. Se defiende que la tradición moderna no es una mera herencia del pasado, sino producto de un proceso de retradicionalización selectiva de prácticas formadas conflictivamente en el mundo católico durante el período de la Contrarreforma, tras un proceso de negociación (basado en un desigual equilibrio de poder) entre hierocracia eclesial y prácticas locales comunes. En la sociedad postradicional, caracterizada por…
Foucault, posverdad y parresia
2019
In this paper, Vaccaro aims to interrogate the political value of truth. Moving from Hannah Arendt and the debate between modernity and postmodernity, the paper focus the Will to truth according the elaboration of Nietzsche, but also the first Collège de France course by Foucault in the ’70s. The thesis is a etho-politics of telling the truth, that to say the parrhesia, as an antidote either to the nihilation of truth in the post-truth, or to the enforcement of truth as the One in politics.
Social Harmony or a Happy Society
2021
In this paper, I set out to prove that once we correctly identify human nature and organize our world according to the principle of cooperation, we can arrive at a world of social harmony. We can then engage in conscious human evolution, aiming at moral and intellectual perfection. Hence, we can arrive at evolutionity, a new evolutionary epoch which would replace the current conflicting and disharmonious times of postmodernity. The current world disharmony, which can be observed especially in the field of politics and economics, is largely related to the erroneous modern Western philosophical assertions identifying the human being with an individual moved by desires and the will to power, a…
El final de la historia a la luz de la utopía política. Entre Fukuyama y Jameson
2017
En este artículo voy a interpretar el significado del final de la historia decretado de manera dispar por Fukuyama y Jameson desde el ángulo de la utopía política moderna. A partir de cuantiosos fragmentos procedentes de novelas utópicas, mostrare como las sociedades ideales imaginadas durante la modernidad tuvieron por cimiento el final de la historia, incidencia que se plasmaba en la propagación de una temporalidad circunscrita al presente. Analizando con la ayuda de la bibliografía filosófica y sociólogica adecuada los fenómenos actuales relativos al ethos posthistórico, mostrare como nuestros días se encuentran a merced de patrones temporales muy semejantes. La conclusión principal a la…
Theoretical orientations of spanish psychotherapists: Integration and eclecticism as modern and postmodern cultural trends.
2006
In this article, we focus on the theoretical orientations of Spanish psychotherapists with reference to the concepts of integration and eclecticism associated respectively with the cultural patterns of modernity and postmodernity. Data are reported from 179 Spanish therapists who responded to the Development of Psychotherapists Common Core Questionnaire (Orlinsky et al., 1999). The results indicated that these Spanish therapists do not show a tendency toward postmodern eclecticism, suggesting that present clinical practice in Spain still needs high-profile theoretical constructs.
Meaningfulness and Meaninglessness of Work in Charles Bukowski
2017
In psychological and managerial literature, the meaning of work boasts a long tradition; in this topic, scholars and researchers have explored sources of meaning and meaningfulness of the working activity in workers' motivations, values, and beliefs. Less attention, however, is given to the function work has in terms of signifier of each individual's personal identity. This article aims at deeply examining the relationship between identity construction and meaning of work, focusing on this theme through the exploration of Charles Bukowski's narrative world. My attention was particularly focused on representations and emotional connotations characterizing the relationship between identity an…