Book Reviews by Giulia Guadagni
Books by Giulia Guadagni
Psychoanalysis, whatever its theoretical background, deals with individuals, individual stories a... more Psychoanalysis, whatever its theoretical background, deals with individuals, individual stories and clot of sorrows that, apparently, have nothing to do with the collective dimension of human life and, in particular, with political life. For these reasons, the Left Wing – for long time – has considered politics as a “bourgeois” and intimist practice, indifferent to the great issues of society and economics. Such concept was challenged by the so-called Freudo-Marxism, by the Frankfurt School and, subsequently, by some members of the political and cultural movement of Protest of 1968, who highlighted the uncompromising social nature of psychoanalysis theorizing on an originally collective subject. It could be affirmed that, at least starting from the book “Civilization and its Discontents” by Freud, psychoanalysis has always dealt with the relationship between society and the individual, focussing on a fundamental anthropological assumption: the individual discontent is a consequence of the social discontent; interior life is the other side of the exterior life. Such an assumption hints at a certain “family similarity” with the ‘psychological’ theories by Marx, subsequently developed by Vygotskij.
In this perspective, it is possible to enhance the line of psychoanalysis that transformed the pathogenic link between society and the individual into its main investigation field, as shown by Reich, Fromm and, above all, by Marcuse. The latter, without being a psychoanalyst, developed his own philosophical analysis and built his own theories on the social emancipation, starting from Freud.
Lacan’s ideas intervened into this research field, despite their hetherodox and original nature, insofar the intrinsic political nature of his work is linked to the issue of desire. In his Seminar 7 the Ethics of Psychoanalysis he formulated one of the most interesting principles of political psychoanalysis: “the only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire”. However, what is at stake in the relationship between psychoanalysis and politics is, thus, the issue of desire; but which desire? Contemporary capitalism assails us with desires; it is therefore our task to investigate desire from a psychoanalytical and - perhaps - genealogical point of view. Who longs for these desires?
A possible answer is suggested by Marx’s philosophical and political legacy, that reflects on historicity and on the “ideological” nature of desires, as well as by Lacan himself that interprets them psychoanalytically as functions of the Ego considered as an imaginary entity. Lacan’s desire is not the one of the Ego, rather something that could be quantified as unconscious and bodily, impersonal and inexpressible. Such a desire is incompatible with the current social and economic order, as it is demonstrated by the constant attack the latter carries out against psychoanalysis. Similar issues have been proposed at the beginning of the 21st Century by authors such as Laclau, Žižek, Badiou and Butler who reinterpreted the political theory on the background of psychoanalysis. The book by Stavrakakis, titled The Lacanian Left, provided a detailed map of such a lively debate modernising the philosophical definitions and categories that demonstrate the validity of psychoanalysis as a criticism about economy, culture and politics.
In this issue of L’inconscio. Rivista Italiana di Filosofia e Psicoanalisi we propose to reflect on the relationships between desire and politics, history and unconscious, body and language.
First issue of "The Unconscious. Italian Journal of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis" focussing on t... more First issue of "The Unconscious. Italian Journal of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis" focussing on the "Philosophical unconscious".
Directors: Felice Cimatti & Fabrizio Palombi
Papers by Giulia Guadagni
Suite française_Effetto Foucault. A cura di Michela Nacci e Giovanni Paoletti, 2020
The work of Michel Foucault has often been interpreted as an example of Relativism and philosophi... more The work of Michel Foucault has often been interpreted as an example of Relativism and philosophical Constructivism. The article suggests that this interpretation would be due to an unwarranted generalization and a wrong comprehension of the conclusion of Les Mots et les Choses: «the man is a recent invention». In the first part, it will be presented the reasons of the opponents to the constructivist drift, who propose realistic theses, giving Foucault a share of responsibility in the current discredit of concepts as truth, objectivity, reality. The second part will be dedicated to Foucault's methodological Nominalism. Here, I'll state that the wrong understanding of the «recent invention» is based on a reductive view of the language as a system of nomenclature, unduly attributed to Foucault. In this regard, I take in account the work of Paul Veyne. Keywords: Michel Foucault -Nominalism -Constructivism -Paul Veyne -Archaeology of Knowledge 2 Cfr. M. Ferraris, Il populismo come perversione del postmoderno, in «CoSMo. Comparative Studies in
Giornale Critico di Storia delle Idee_L'Italian Thought fra globalizzazione e tradizione_A cura di Corrado Claverini, 2019
Starting point of the paper is the recent book titled Effetto Italian Thought (Italian Thought Ef... more Starting point of the paper is the recent book titled Effetto Italian Thought (Italian Thought Effect). The paper discusses what it means for a philosophical theory to have an effect and proposes a distinction between ‘having’ an effect and ‘being’ an effect. Then, it considers Esposito’s thesis according to which the Italian Thought has produced a new turn in contemporary philosophy: from the linguistic turn of the Twentieth Century to a biological turn.
The paper takes into account three different positions about the problem of life (Esposito, Agamben and Cimatti). It suggests, in conclusion, that the Italian Thought has relevant effects on the philosophical development of this topic, but it is not an effect, because it is still challenging, as most of contemporary philosophy, with the still dominant language-centered paradigm inherited from the Twentieth Century.
Bertollini, A.; D'Aurizio, C.; Guadagni, G.; a cura di, Vita, istituzioni, forme-di-vita: a partire da Homo sacer di Agamben, in Palinsesti, n. 5, 2019
I saggi pubblicati nel presente volume sono stati tutti sottoposti a procedure di valutazione, e ... more I saggi pubblicati nel presente volume sono stati tutti sottoposti a procedure di valutazione, e specificatamente di blind peer review per quanto riguarda la sezione "La scena dottorale" Il volume è stato pubblicato con il contributo del Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici dell'Università della Calabria Proprietà letteraria riservata © by Pellegrini Editore -Cosenza -Italy Stampato in Italia nel mese di febbraio 2019 per conto di Pellegrini Editore Via Camposano, 41 (ex via De Rada) -87100 Cosenza Tel. (0984) 795065 -Fax (0984) 792672
This paper focuses on the formation and transformation of the concept of “regime of truth” in Fou... more This paper focuses on the formation and transformation of the concept of “regime of truth” in Foucault’s work. It traces out the theoretical legacies of such a concept in The Archaeology of Knowledge, and then isolates its first definition in some writings from the Seventies where the relation between truth and power is highlighted. Finally, the paper engages with the key role that regimes of truth plays in some of the last Courses at the Collège de France. The aim of the paper is to show the theoretical autonomy of the concept of “regime of truth” and to strengthen the theoretical dimension of such a concept, which percolates Foucault’s work and which is largely used in the secondary literature.
I saggi pubblicati nel presente volume sono stati tutti sottoposti a procedure di valutazione, e ... more I saggi pubblicati nel presente volume sono stati tutti sottoposti a procedure di valutazione, e specificatamente di blind peer review per quanto riguarda la sezione "La scena dottorale" Il volume è stato pubblicato con il contributo del Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici dell'Università della Calabria Proprietà letteraria riservata © by Pellegrini Editore -Cosenza -Italy Stampato in Italia nel mese di settembre 2016 per conto di Pellegrini Editore Via Camposano, 41 (ex via De Rada) -87100 Cosenza Tel. (0984) 795065 -Fax (0984) 792672 Sommario Presentazione 7 APERTURE fRanCeSCo SaPonaRo Sul Calderón di Pier Paolo Pasolini 11 nauSiCa tuCCi Forza del testo e messa in scena 23 bRuno RobeRti La visualità del Calderón 29 RobeRto De Gaetano La "bontá" del potere 39 OFFICINA FoUCAULt e Le IMMAGINI a cura di RobeRto De Gaetano e DeboRah De RoSa maSSimo Donà Lo sguardo pietrificante dell'arte. Foucault, ovvero le speculari "immagini" dell'invisibile 45 Paolo GoDani Il posto del re Lo statuto epistemologico delle immagini nel pensiero di Foucault 67 fabRizio Palombi Gli enigmi di Velázquez: le prospettive di Michel Foucault e Jacques Lacan 77 DeboRah De RoSa L'Altro e la sua immagine. A partire da Storia della follia 93 PieRanDRea amato Il corpo e la materia. Note sull'arte in Foucault 103 aleSSia CeRvini Giocare con le immagini: forme ibride e arti sovrapposte 131 6 miRiam iaComini Il doppio volto della modernità. Foucault interprete di Manet 141 CateRina maRtino Questa non è una foto. Michals e Foucault via Magritte 161 Giulia GuaDaGni Foucault e l'arte moderna come forma di vera vita 179 DaRio CeCChi Un pensiero della somiglianza: Foucault interprete di Magritte 195 Daniele DottoRini Per un pensiero-cinema. Foucault e le forme delle immagini 211 PatRizia fantozzi Portare il lampo delle tempeste possibili. Foucault/Godard: pensiero e cinema 227 bRuno RobeRti Voir, sa-voir, pou-voir. Foucault con Syberberg 253 SalvatoRe teDeSCo «La peinture moderne, c'est-à-dire le cinématographe». Godard con Foucault a partire dal Manet 265
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Book Reviews by Giulia Guadagni
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In this perspective, it is possible to enhance the line of psychoanalysis that transformed the pathogenic link between society and the individual into its main investigation field, as shown by Reich, Fromm and, above all, by Marcuse. The latter, without being a psychoanalyst, developed his own philosophical analysis and built his own theories on the social emancipation, starting from Freud.
Lacan’s ideas intervened into this research field, despite their hetherodox and original nature, insofar the intrinsic political nature of his work is linked to the issue of desire. In his Seminar 7 the Ethics of Psychoanalysis he formulated one of the most interesting principles of political psychoanalysis: “the only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire”. However, what is at stake in the relationship between psychoanalysis and politics is, thus, the issue of desire; but which desire? Contemporary capitalism assails us with desires; it is therefore our task to investigate desire from a psychoanalytical and - perhaps - genealogical point of view. Who longs for these desires?
A possible answer is suggested by Marx’s philosophical and political legacy, that reflects on historicity and on the “ideological” nature of desires, as well as by Lacan himself that interprets them psychoanalytically as functions of the Ego considered as an imaginary entity. Lacan’s desire is not the one of the Ego, rather something that could be quantified as unconscious and bodily, impersonal and inexpressible. Such a desire is incompatible with the current social and economic order, as it is demonstrated by the constant attack the latter carries out against psychoanalysis. Similar issues have been proposed at the beginning of the 21st Century by authors such as Laclau, Žižek, Badiou and Butler who reinterpreted the political theory on the background of psychoanalysis. The book by Stavrakakis, titled The Lacanian Left, provided a detailed map of such a lively debate modernising the philosophical definitions and categories that demonstrate the validity of psychoanalysis as a criticism about economy, culture and politics.
In this issue of L’inconscio. Rivista Italiana di Filosofia e Psicoanalisi we propose to reflect on the relationships between desire and politics, history and unconscious, body and language.
Directors: Felice Cimatti & Fabrizio Palombi
Papers by Giulia Guadagni
The paper takes into account three different positions about the problem of life (Esposito, Agamben and Cimatti). It suggests, in conclusion, that the Italian Thought has relevant effects on the philosophical development of this topic, but it is not an effect, because it is still challenging, as most of contemporary philosophy, with the still dominant language-centered paradigm inherited from the Twentieth Century.