Before analyzing social relations, it is good to deal with the new paradigm. But how should this “new” be constructed? It is the question from which the philosopher will start Pierangelo Di Vittorio, in the third appointment of the training course “Volunteers and families online for mental health”, scheduled for Saturday 24 October, at the Di Liegro Foundation.
The answer - according to Di Vittorio - is in putting together pieces of the past, in the form of cultural archives, and pieces of the present, that is, diagnoses on the problems and tensions that run through current affairs. A type of mosaic, made up of pieces on which Di Vittorio has been working for some time, collected starting from the question of social relations.
And it is like in a mosaic that the themes of the meeting will be composed, between the philosopher Walter Benjamin and the present which has “the power of the keys over the rooms of the past” and the writer and philosopher Michel Foucault, who has dealt with madness since his doctoral thesis "History of madness in the classical age" and invited us to question ourselves precisely on madness, because "from man to true man, the road passes through the mad man" .
During the meeting we will inevitably talk about Franco Basaglia (with whom Pierangelo Di Vittorio came into indirect contact when after graduating he carried out his civil service at the Mental Health Department of Trieste) and of his decision to undertake the path of invention and caring for the social bond. Read about it in this regard monograph "Franco Basaglia", written with Mario Colucci, released in 2001 and recently re-edited.
“Began in the name of a love for knowledge, in the name of philosophy, Basaglia's experience developed as a loving relationship towards patients, to finally be realized in the construction of another way of living together. A more just and fruitful common life – Di Vittorio wrote in the magazine “Either/Or” in 2017 – for which Italian society and the entire world still bear the responsibility and active hope”.
