La mente estatica [The Ecstatic Mind]1

According to Fachinelli, human beings are virtually incapable of tolerating what he calls 'excessive joy', the outcome of the movement of life itself - of Eros - in a word. Observing Freud's famous and declared non-involvement with ecstatic experience - and at the same time the uncann...

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Published inInternational Journal of Psychoanalysis Vol. 91; no. 4; pp. 1022 - 1025
Main Author Cimino, Cristiana
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.08.2010
Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Clinical medicine
Psychoanalysis
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Summary:According to Fachinelli, human beings are virtually incapable of tolerating what he calls 'excessive joy', the outcome of the movement of life itself - of Eros - in a word. Observing Freud's famous and declared non-involvement with ecstatic experience - and at the same time the uncanny [unheimliche] fascination it sustains - which he immediately assimilated to religion, Fachinelli returns to the famous episode which took place on the Acropolis.
Bibliography:In 2008 Sergio Benvenuto and Anthony Molino published a collection of conversations with distinguished figures from the international psychoanalytic scene
Translated by Harriet Cooper.
Or, at any rate, Fachinelli’s work has not been appreciated widely enough, particularly outside of Italy.
Benvenuto and Molino, 2008
Among these figures was Elvio Fachinelli.
ISSN:0020-7578
1745-8315
DOI:10.1111/j.1745-8315.2010.00342_2.x