For a meaning of human suffering: the paradigm of abyss

• Main Author: Luca Emanuel Pinto
• Format: Article
• Language: Italian
• Published: Associazione di Psicoanalisi della Relazione Educativa 2020-06-01
• Series: International Journal of Psychoanalysis and Education
• Subjects: italian psychoanalysis; suffering; metapsychology; organizations of personalities
• Online Access: http://www.psychoedu.org/index.php/IJPE/article/view/278

<p dir="ltr"><span>The purpose of this article is to explain a new theoretical paradigm about expressions and interpretation of human suffering, with using psychoanalytic instruments and theories. So the author will examine the different connotations of suffering, paying more attention to the components from which it is composed, that is the parameters used to describe it. Of course, the authentic meaning of suffering does not correspond to a simple absence of well-being of the psychic apparatus: quite the opposite, pain produces psychic work.  So it will be far from the author's intentions to insert the object of the argument in a reductionist point of view(the suffering as a sort of psychic nociception) or in cartesian point of view(suffering as resulting from a cause/effect connections). The meaning - mentioned in the main title - is given by the subject to his difficult “art of living”.</span></p>