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Romano Màdera
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5313/2025.03.006
University of Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy
A shift has taken place in the common types of pathology and the relationships between them, all broadly linked to the crisis in identity frameworks, which in turn is characterized by a difficulty in recognizing appropriate boundaries (boundaries between self and others, boundaries between self and the world, and the boundaries inbuilt in one’s own personality). This has led to the spread of narcissistic, addiction, and eating disorders, panic attacks, or alternatively, in the case of an illusory attempt to remain in control, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and phobias. Even mood disorders appear to be related to excessive expectations regarding performance, within a confused overall framework of overlapping and ill-defined roles. I have placed analysis, formative practices based on philosophy as a way of life and spirituality side by side in what I have designated “Biographical analysis philosophically oriented”. However, the theoretical validity of the project still hinges on whether it adequately addresses the unresolved issues posed by psychoanalysis, formative practice, and spiritual accompaniment, once scientific justifications, confutative models of comparison, and forms of religious exclusivism have exhausted their historical function.
psychoanalysis, Hadot, philosophy as life style, biographical analysis
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