An organism to heal for doctors, labor force to be employed for economists, flesh to be redeemed for religious, the unconscious to liberate for psychoanalysts, a tailor’s dummy for fashion designers… in the West, the body has taken on such a disparate variety of meanings that it cannot be discussed unequivocally without duly clarifying all misunderstandings.The discussion will be conducted beginning with the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, who introduced the body-soul dualism; continued with the Judeo-Christian tradition, that lacked a notion of soul; and concluded with Descartes, the thinker who reduced the body to a mere organism and thus offered science a knowledge basis. We can be saved from the ‘seduction of Descartes’ error’ by phenomenology, which draws a distinction between the organism and our living body in its relationship to the life-world. This ‘living body’ does need a soul to account for the human condition.
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Umberto Galimberti, a disciple of Emanuele Severino and Karl Jaspers, is Professor of Philosophy of History and Dynamic Psychology at Venice Ca’ Foscari University and member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. He often contributes articles to the newsdaily ‘La Repubblica’. Among his many books, all published by Feltrinelli, are: Il tramonto dell’Occidente nella lettura di Heidegger e Jaspers (1975-1984), Il corpo (1983), Gli equivoci dell'anima (1987), Psiche e techne. L'uomo nell'età della tecnica (1999), Orme del sacro (2000), I vizi capitali e i nuovi vizi (2003), Le cose dell’amore (2004), La casa di psiche. Dalla psicoanalisi alla pratica filosofica (2005), L’ospite inquietante. Il nichilismo e i giovani (2007), I miti del nostro tempo (2009), Il segreto della domanda. Intorno alle cose umane e divine (2011). He has single-handedly authored a Dictionary of Psychology published by UTET in 1992 and now available in a revised and updated 1999 edition by Garzanti.
Umberto Galimberti & i Dialoghi
2011
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