2023 mag 30 - Oltre il narcisismo dall'io al NOI

May 30, 2023 Beyond Narcissism: From the Self to the WE A comprehensive lecture by psychiatrist Vittorino Andreoli on the topics of Love, Fragility, Depression, and Narcissism. Vittorino Andreoli, a world-renowned psychiatrist, reevaluates the fragility that was once hidden, along with weaknesses and flaws. "I feel a strong desire to reveal my fragility, to show it to all those who meet me, who see me, as if it were my primary identification as a man, as a human being in this world," he writes in his 2008 essay "The Glass Man." The strength of fragility.” He is convinced that fragility is a strength that helps us live, redefining us, unlike the power that destroys us and reduces us to fragments. Andreoli compares human fragility to that of glass—fragile, yes, but also transparent, allowing us to look beyond, to be able to gaze into the heart, into the most authentic essence of humanity. Only in relationships with others do we define ourselves and discover our authenticity. Fear, anguish, sadness, and insecurities are characteristic of everyone's life. In Italy, 14% of the population suffers from clinical depression; anxiety affects 20%, while 5% suffer from manic disorders and 2% suffer from schizophrenia. “A stigma of the species, a mark of its transience,” Andreoli defines it. Moreover, rather than providing answers and alleviating pain, capitalism, globalization, secularization, and boundless faith in science (and technology, as the Philosophers Umberto Galimberti and Emanuele Severino), exasperated consumerism, the relentless pursuit of pleasure, wealth, and success, the recent digital revolution, and the threats of artificial intelligence have actually increased disorientation and fragility. For this, however, we must find a balance, escape routes, and strategies that reverse our perspective, transforming weakness and finiteness into strength. A new vision of life that also prevents delusions of omnipotence and malice toward those who make mistakes: because error is innate in human beings, who often, precisely because they are afraid of making mistakes, end up imagining and committing them. Fragility must foster the desire to help others rather than dominate them; it must foster the desire to be with everyone because they help you and you help them. Fragility must become the origin of connection, understanding, solidarity, love, and the joy of living. YouTube channel source: Rinascimento Culturale